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Glad to hear you got it to work!

That change to the database does sound like a hack – glad you could easily repair it.

Also to note – that base64 in reference to an image file is usually ok. Sometimes that will show up in css for images in the css file as well.

FYI you have a closing </p> tag right after the image with no opening tag ….. potentially enough to cause an issue.

Actually you have another missing closing </div> tag further down looks like.

More than enough to give FireFox a headache 😉
You might want to run the page through the W3C validator and fix up the errors
https://validator.w3.org/

The map of Georgia with the boxes on either side of it?
They seem to be working fine for me.
Which browser are you using and what version?

There are some image mapping plugins – but I don’t have any experience with them so not sure how good they work or easy they are to use. Here’s one I found: https://wordpress.org/plugins/imagemapper/

I just read in a couple posts that if pluggable is involved that it’s likely a plugin conflict.

I would suggest renaming the plugin directory and create an empty one and then try to log in. If you can log in then delete the new plugin directory and rename the old one back and then slowly re-activate them to test them.

Try turning on debug mode in your wp-config.php file and see if there are any more helpful error messages that come up.

While googling this issue I saw somebody mention increasing memory resolved a similar issue
https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

A good idea to scan the .sql file – find one that does show up and then find one of the missing ones and compare the structure. Scan for this text as well “base64” or “base64_decode” – it may show up in your options table if you have any security plugins installed (which take a look at iThemes Security when you’re all fixed up if you’re not running one)

Also – you said you deleted everything – did you download new copies of all plugins and themes? What about the uploads and images folder – how did you deal with that?

Great free tool – Total Commander you can point it at a directory and scan the text inside all of the files of all sub-directories.

Also, try it will all plugins disabled and one of the core WordPress themes to make sure it’s not a conflict with any of those things.

Also, have you used any of the tools built into phpMyAdmin to check or analyze the tables to see if it shows any issues. A clean import should mean no issues.

FYI .htaccess and wp-config.php file permission can be safely and more securely set to 444. It’s one of the steps that the iThemes Security plugin takes to secure a site (a highly recommended free plugin).

After a hack I usually delete and replace all WordPress core files and folders except the wp-content folder. Then I download current versions of all plugins and delete and replace those folders. If working with a theme that hasn’t been customized – download and replace that too. Then manually scan any theme customizations/child theme folder and then the uploads folder. This assumes that everything was kept current. Then I install iThemes Security and secure the site going forward.

As you’ve done – always a good idea to reset all passwords for WordPress and the hosting account. Passwords that are not even close to being secure enough are a hackers dream. I always use a password generator set at a minimum of 15 characters – Symantecs is good

They could have hacked the database, WordPress core or any plugin – the hack does not have to be in a theme file.