Glo

If the infraction occurred prior to 24 hours ago, how can I determine what caused it and how to avoid it in the future?

I don’t think anyone here can help you, at least not without seeing what’s in your directories. I doubt your database was compromised. If you can’t change hosts (which I would highly recommend) then go in and delete the html file that’s showing right now and look for anything else suspicious and remove it. Back everything up first. Check your logs daily and wait and see what happens. Oh, I would remove the gallery program since there’s no photos in it anyway.

You could also backup your database, then remove the wp tables in MySQL, remove everything related to WP and any other program you have installed yourself, including images, from your directories, then do a clean install. You can dump your database content back in after the new install and reload any images you might want. If you need help doing that, email me at glo (at) wild-mind.net and I’ll tell you how. If you have changed the look of your blog, save the theme you changed to your hard drive, if you don’t already have it on your computer (hopefully you do).

Good luck!

Your Web host is probably the only one who can help you. Bt examining your logs, your host should be able to track down the problem, unless the hackers covered their tracks very well. But even if they did, your host can tell if your logs were reset.

While WP has no know vulnerabilities, there could be something in a plugin that allowed a script kiddie to deface your site but I’m guessing it was something else on your server. If you have Front Page extensions, there is a vulnerability. Not sure how it all works but there is information on site defacement via FP extensions if you do a search.

It’s against the law to deface a site but the script kiddies do it because they can. If you do some research, you can even find scripts with instruction on how to deface a site. I have one (a php defacement script) that was used in an attempt to deface my WP blog. It wasn’t successful but they tried several times.

Anyway, I’d contact my host and hope they have the skills required to track down the problem. If it is a WP problem, then I’m sure the developers would like to know. Your host will need to supply the evidence that it is a WP problem, not just say it is – that will not help anyone and it will not give the developers what they need in order to fix any possible problem.

Good luck!

the-wick, if you’re still having problems, email me at glo(at)wild-mind.net and I’ll help you get it sorted out.

You just need to edit the css in your wp-content/Themes/classic directory – style.css. Look for #menu and move the sidebar down by the px height of your header. Use margin-top: 50px; or whatever the height is in px.

It would have been much easier to incorporate your design into WP’s table-less design and it would have functioned far better. As it is, you have two separate style sheets competing with each other.

I think I’d get a different host and save myself a lot of frustration!

It works in both FF and IE for me.

donjz, how did you backup your wp directory? Did you happen to use cpanel to backup everything?

Try adding the index.php to the end of the admin url – http://www.insight-power-systems.com/wordpress/wp-admin/index.php after logging in and see what happens.