Hacked WordPress - Migration?

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Hi all

Got a site which has been hacked, my outgoing links are highjacked into those spammy news advertorials.

Anyway, I want to now migrate around 100 pages, can't use a backup plugin because that may port over the scripts.

I made the noob mistake of dowloading a theme from a sharky site.

What's the best way for me to migrate the site to another server? I'm thinking of just copy pasting and redoing everything.

Thanks!
 
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unless u can source the script/coding, ur a lil screwed, even with migration.
it may be possible that they were newbies and made a basic script thats easily found, or they were smart and have it migrate with every new link within the database.
the later means ur screwed. i would probably source out the coding before bothering to migrate and start everything again(depending on how many pages etc ur website has).
could jsut be a simple line to remove like astra theme did
 
C4rnage569 said:
unless u can source the script/coding, ur a lil screwed, even with migration.
it may be possible that they were newbies and made a basic script thats easily found, or they were smart and have it migrate with every new link within the database.
the later means ur screwed. i would probably source out the coding before bothering to migrate and start everything again(depending on how many pages etc ur website has).
could jsut be a simple line to remove like astra theme did
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Thanks for explaining.

My idea was to get a new wp installation and copy paste the entire site over and republish everything including all images and links.

Won't that work? Different theme and then switch DNS?

I guess if this isn't viable (not sure how it wouldn't be) I'll just have to hire someone off upwork to look into it.
 
1/ Why you dont clean your website ?
2/ You have no backup
3/ If you want to migrate yr site, you need to clean your db. Sure, Hijack go insert something

I know, I was hacked by Donatello
 
I think there is an option to reset your wordpress website to a backup of previous date.
you can do that to go back to where it was not hacked and then export and migrate.
 
alonelywriter said:
I think there is an option to reset your wordpress website to a backup of previous date.
you can do that to go back to where it was not hacked and then export and migrate.
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If only if your hosting make backup regularly or if you make yourself a backup
 
admiralkunka said:
Install wordfence plugin most of the times they dedect the files that are compromised
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WordFence found them all - problem is - I can't repair because my server is not writeable.

Thanks to everyone who chimed in, I think I'll just get my VA to redo the entire site - it's less than 100 pages.
 
Clearly you dont want to start from scratch so i would enlist the help of a security expert who manually goes through your setup. Kind of like anti virus software but for websites
 
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