Wp hacked post

[RogueWriter]

Came across a good blog post, originally written some time ago, thought it might be of use to a few NPers. I like how the guy took a problem and turned it into a post on his blog...

What to do when your wp site is hacked

And yeah, both my accounts on a server was hacked, with a couple dozen wp sites needing to be deleted/reinstalled/modified. It's been a fun couple of days.

 

[vdonline]

Did you have WordFence installed on those blogs? It saved me few times where there was vulnerabilities.

 

[enlytend]

Wordfence or sucuri ...

 

[Asfas1000]

Strong pass too.

 

[vivaldi]

And use as few plugins as possible.

 

[RogueWriter]

Many of my sites had wp simple firewall, but a lot of my sites were just splash pages that I had thrown up with the intention of developing later, in 2014 and 2015. So they were vulnerable. Anyways, most of them I just deleted the entire site and folders, since they were not generating significant income. Others I went in and deleted specific files, and updated/added some security.

I also spent some time streamlining my wp sites; deleting all unused themes, stripping out plugins, making sure everything was up to date, etc.

Which got me to thinking I should write a blog post about it, which got me to thinking that someone already has, which led me to that post I originally listed..... :D

 

[enlytend]

Glad you've got it under control. Simple Firewall is another good one.