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Again, my site was hacked... several malicious files were removed from my server and I have been trying to get everything back up and running correctly. This is my first time dealing with a hack.
The site is: http://www.mtsterlingchamber.com
Issues at hand:
The content area for the entire Chamber section does not display. Information is there... but it doesn't show up
New pages display ONLY using the default template, although other templates work on previously created pages.
All mobile templates appear to be working fine
Any troubleshooting suggestions, suggestions to individuals that provide services to help fix, tutorials on troubleshooting this issues is greatly appreciated.
Jess
I use sucuri firewall and malware security, they are pretty expensive though for the 4 hour support. There are cheap/free options without support.
I also run iThemes, and cloudflare for triple security levels. On top of using Genesis you shouldn't have any issues.
I did have an issue with one client who kept getting hacked some time ago, email scripts were placed on the server sending mass emails to random gmail/yahoo accounts... The only difference I could find between them and other clients was that WordPress was installed in the root directory rather than a subfolder such as /wp/ Additionally it was an old pre 3.0 installation (albeit updates). There may have been some residual old plugin files they were never deleted correctly, but database was optimized.
To fix I had to export all posts using WordPress export plugin. wp-admin -> tools/export/ Then reinstall WordPress on a new server. Set everything back up from scratch then import all posts and pages and make sure my contact form was working. Since then I haven't had any problems.
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