WordPress reset plugin

  • Resolved Anaelle2206

    (@anaelle2206)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hello everyone 🙂

    I needed to reset to default my blog website. So I installed the WORDPRESS RESET plugin and launched it.

    Instead of going back to its default start, I got a page telling me I needed to click on REPAIR because some files weren’t available.
    I did and it gave me this result:
    https://example.com/wp-admin/maint/repair.php?repair=1

    In case you cannot get to the page, here what the repair action gave me:
    wp_posts: Table ‘XXXX.wp_posts’ doesn’t exist
    wp_comments: Table ‘XXXX.wp_comments’ doesn’t exist
    wp_links: Table ‘XXXX.wp_links’ doesn’t exist
    wp_options: Table ‘XXXX.wp_options’ doesn’t exist
    wp_postmeta: Table ‘XXXX.wp_postmeta’ doesn’t exist
    wp_term_relationships: Table ‘XXXX.wp_term_relationships’ doesn’t exist
    wp_commentmeta: Table ‘XXXX.wp_commentmeta’ doesn’t exist

    Please give this list on wordpress support forum for informations.

    Thank you all for help and MERRY CHRISTMAS!
    Anaelle G.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Sounds like your database tables got removed.
    Since you have exposed the database name and your domain name in one place, I recommend you start over by removing WordPress and installing from scratch. That will give you a new database name that isn’t publicly known. (less chance of hacks)

    Thread Starter Anaelle2206

    (@anaelle2206)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hello dear Joy,

    Do you mean that by copying these lines I gave up enough details of my blog to be hacked?
    Gee… so much for following the given advice from the wordpress system.

    Thank you very much.

    Thread Starter Anaelle2206

    (@anaelle2206)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Please if anyone from the admin read this, could you cancel it all! Thank you 😉

    And HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    7 years, 9 months ago

    There’s no need to cancel anything but I have marked this topic as resolved.

    Thread Starter Anaelle2206

    (@anaelle2206)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Please I’d like it to be fully removed!
    It is my wish (and right)

    Thank you Jan 🙂

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Anaelle2206.
    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Please review https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/ (especially the bit at the bottom).

    I’ve hidden your domain name to non-logged in users, however you provided this information of your own free will. The right to erasure does not apply to exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, nor for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes. See Article 17. This, being a support forum for the open education of the world at large, falls under that.

    Will we remove it on request? Sometimes. Depends on if it’s actually personally identifying or not. A domain rarely is.

    I’ve flagged your account for moderation after you abused the modlook flag. Please don’t report topics like this repeatedly.

    Keep in mind, Google’s already collected this and there’s nothing to be done about that.

    ETA: Joy’s kind of wrong there. Posting that link WILL NOT get you hacked. As soon as you update your site and restore data, you’ve got no risk at all. You can go to that URL on anyone’s site. It’s not a secret. We removed the DB details but against that’s like saying “Someone knows my phone number! They might hack my phone!” Not a big deal. My domain’s ipstenu.org, my DB is wordpress_database, and my DB prefix is wp_ … It’s really not a thing to be super worried about. If you had my PASSWORD, then maybe.

    The tl;dr? Next time don’t post anything you don’t want to have public.

    Thread Starter Anaelle2206

    (@anaelle2206)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hello, thank you for all these info, as you might have understood I am quite ignorant about informatics and so I freaked out when I was told I could get hacked for posting what I did (not understanding a word of what was said in the repair windows).

    And you’re right… I will definitely avoid posting in forums again…

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    7 years, 9 months ago

    >> I will definitely avoid posting in forums again… <<

    That’s not the lesson to take from this! Please post here if you have questions. As a general rule, however, just avoid things like userids, passwords, personal email, phone numbers, etc.

    We’re here to help. Sorry you got freaked out.

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