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  • Hi, for some unknown reason the front page of my website has changed and now appears as an empty comment page. It still appears ok in Dashboard. I am now receiving emails asking me to moderate comments I know nothing about. Any help would be gratefully received as I am completely bemused and cannot find any other post with a similar issue. I am also not that savvy with WordPress. I had a designer put the site together for me and I do elementary updates etc. The site is http://www.paintsmiths.com.au
    thanks

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  • Hi

    Sorry to say but it looks like your site has been hacked. I’ve had a look at the source code of the home page and found the following div tag which contained a large number of spammy links

    <div style=”position:absolute; width:185px; height:1px; overflow:hidden;”>

    What this tag does is create a content block that’s only one pixel high and hiding the overflow means that content is not visible to normal viewers.

    I would suggest contacting your hosting company and trying to restore a backup. You should also check the site for malicious files (there are a number of security plugins that can help with that) and also read this article https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

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