Entire Site Suddenly in Italics

Resolved stacyjuba
(@stacyjuba)

11 years, 3 months ago

Last night when I went to bed, my website was fine, but I just went on it this afternoon and the entire site is in italics. In the past, if a new blog entry posted and I forgot an ’em,’ tag that post and the sidebars and header would be in italics until I fixed the em tag but the rest of the site would be unaffected.

In this case, the entire site has been changed to italics. All I was doing last night was working on blog posts. I wasn’t working on any widgets or pages.

I tried trashing the latest posts in case there was something in them that I wasn’t seeing, and I even tried moving the latest draft posts and scheduled posts into the trash, however even doing that didn’t get rid of the italics. I am just not seeing any unclosed em tags. Is there a way to do a search for them or could it be another issue?

Does anyone have a suggestion? The site is: http://stacyjuba.com/blog/

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Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)

WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

11 years, 3 months ago

Your missing </i> tag is probably on, “Payday Loans Online” just under the <body> element
view-source:http://stacyjuba.com/blog/

Thread Starter stacyjuba
(@stacyjuba)

11 years, 3 months ago

Hi Andrew, I don’t see anything that says Payday Loans online. It shouldn’t be there – can you tell me where you’re seeing it?

Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)

WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

11 years, 3 months ago

Did you check out that view-source link?
By your reaction, it sounds as though you’ve been hacked.

Thread Starter stacyjuba
(@stacyjuba)

11 years, 3 months ago

I do see that now – could you direct me to where do I go on my WordPress dashboard to find and delete that code from my dashabord? And if I’ve been hacked, is there anything I can do to keep them out – change the password? Thanks so much for your help!

ecrip
(@ecrip)

11 years, 3 months ago

All of my posts suddenly went italic too. Checked source…no problems found.

Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)

WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

11 years, 3 months ago

@stacy You need to start working your way through these resources:
http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/268083#post-1065779
http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/
http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/

Additional Resources:
http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/
http://www.unmaskparasites.com/
http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/03/wordpress-understanding-its-true-vulnerability.html

jeremytabby
(@jeremytabby)

11 years, 3 months ago

I think so re: hacked..it just happened to me…someone placed this code in my header.php:

<div id=’hideMe’> <p><i> Online Payday Loan Online Payday Loan</div>

Same problem…when the page assembles, the missing closing italic tag causes the whole page — and therefore EVERY page – to be italicized.

Use your editor to take out the offending <div> from header.php, and all should be well.

It happened suddenly. while I was working on the site. By any chance are you hosted at GoDaddy?

jeremytabby
(@jeremytabby)

11 years, 3 months ago

Still wrong, I’m sorry…not using the correct back ticks:

<div id='hideMe'> <p><i> Online Payday Loan <a href="http://12minpaydayloans.com/">Online Payday Loan</a></div>

Thread Starter stacyjuba
(@stacyjuba)

11 years, 3 months ago

Wow I am glad I posted. Yes I am on Go Daddy and that is the code Andrew found. I’ll see if I can go get rid of it first then check out the what to do if you’ve been hacked references – thanks for those, Andrew! So perhaps we should also contact Go Daddy?

Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)

WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

11 years, 3 months ago

Yes, contacting your hosts wouldn’t hurt. I’m not sure whether they cover for things like this though.

Thread Starter stacyjuba
(@stacyjuba)

11 years, 3 months ago

Thanks so much – it looks like I fixed it – now to do the above steps to keep the idiots from doing any more damage. Thank you again!

Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)

WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

11 years, 3 months ago

And Thank you for contributing to the WordPress community 🙂
This thread will help others experiencing the same issue.

ecrip
(@ecrip)

11 years, 3 months ago

Found a unexpected user on my called systemadmin (something like that). Should have copied the name before I deleted it but I didn’t. User was deleted.

Ran scans: Sucuri & Unmask Parasites. No problems identified.
Contacted GoDaddy; await reply

Anyone have more on this text to italics issue?

Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)

WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

11 years, 3 months ago

Sorry ecrip, you’ll have to create your own thread on the issue for support.

Thread Starter stacyjuba
(@stacyjuba)

11 years, 3 months ago

My update is just that deleting the pay online code worked, and Go Daddy told me there was a required WordPress update in red that needed to be done so they recommended that I do the update.