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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Entire Site Suddenly in ItalicsFYI, I am an admin (as the developer) on all my clients sites. If you are an admin on your site under “Appearances” there is a theme editor. clicking on this will take you to all the .php files of your theme. I then copied a piece of the malicious code:
[hack link moderated]
Then I hit Control-F – which is the find command and a box opens into which you can paste the code. Click on each of the files and then highlight or click in the find box where the code is and the find command will check the file for the code. It is intantaneous. You then click the next file (the code is still in the find box), click the box and it searches the file and says no matches found or will highlight the malicious code if it is in there.
Personally, I cannot possibly take the time to read every line of code in all those files for the many clients I have so this is a quick solution to making sure the code is not embedded in another .php file besides the header. Just a thought for the more daring who are Administrators on their sites.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Entire Site Suddenly in ItalicsThanks Esmi,
Deleting the code handled the issue of the italics and the payanydayloan ad that was invisible. There is a java script right after the </div> that also needs to be removed.
And the email used by the so called systemwpadmin user was a fake one as I tried to send to it and as I expected, it bounced.
I did not need to further research the issue. But having this string in the forum may solve a lot of people’s problems (just as it did mine) – so thanks to everyone!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Entire Site Suddenly in ItalicsOh yeah, there was an additional ADMINISTRATOR shown as a user:
systemwpadmin
systemwpadmin@wordpress.orgI took them down to subscriber so that i can watch them over the next few days. If there is no further activity on their part, I will remove them entirely.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Entire Site Suddenly in ItalicsOne of my clients also had this issue. I found the code in the Header.php file and removed it. I have warned her to change her password into the site and am now checking her GoDaddy account for unauthorized Admins. This is definitely a GoDaddy hack issue. So glad this string was on the forum. Thanks you guys!
FYI – BTW, the required wordpress update should be done through the GoDaddy site (back up your site before updating and if you have problems updating call the GoDaddy customer service guys – they are great!). It is a legitimate update and doing it through their site makes it easy and relatively safe.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Migrating site content to new server, problem with imagesaddendum to the last post – this only works if your images are in wp-content/uploads folder format. If you are storing the images in year and month folders (wp-content/uploads/year/month), this is not the “fix”. Unfortunately for me the images are in year and month files for the first 475 articles. 🙁
It is my guess that I will be copying all the images to the uploads folder from the year and month folders and trying this again. Shall see, shall see.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Migrating site content to new server, problem with imagesFYI – I have finally found that in the migration to the new server, every image has had a 1 added to the end its URL – Not in the file itself, but in the Advanced Settings when you click on the photo in the article. This is of particular issue if one has used a medium size (300X225) or a thumbnail (150X150). If one has used the size photo that they uploaded, it does not happen.
Example:
ORIGINAL: image_1234-150×150.jpg
After migration: image_12341-150×150.jpgI am now going through roughly 500 posts all of which contain 1 to 4 images and taking the “1” off, clicking “update” and then updating the article. The whole process can take up to 5 minutes per post, but better than the battle of replacing images and messing with the photos on the server.
I hope this will help anyone who has the same issues
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Migrating site content to new server, problem with imagesPressbackup has not worked for me. I am trying to see if I can FTP the entire site to my local machine and then upload it to the new server to see if I can make it work. So far I have failed to get the site I am experimenting with to ftp a copy to my local machine. It keeps failing. I did read where if one is going to use pressbackup one should have the same version of WordPress on both servers. Just an FYI to anyone who reads and decides to try this.I am upgrading my existing site to 3.1.3 and the new site will be the same.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Migrating site content to new server, problem with imagesI am using WP3.1.2 on the new server although I am at 2.9 on the old server. (I have also created a new theme for the new site but that should not affect anything. I guess it could create some issues if I try what you suggested, but am not sure.) I will try your suggestions on another site I am moving and see how it goes. The maximum upload to the new site is 8 MB and a backup of this magnitude (over 500 posts and 1000s of images) is greater than 8 MB. The other sites I have to migrate are smaller. I will update when I try it on another site. If any one else has any other suggestions, I welcome them! Thank you for responding, The Sweede.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Importing issuesDid you find a solution to this, as I also have this issue. Actually when I export from the original site on an old server, save it, import to the new site on a new server, it says import of media failed. It sounds like you have a similar issue. If any one can help me out I would really appreciate it as I have nearly 1000 pictures to import and get attached to the appropriate post. Help, help!