Most usual issue in our blogging life, when someone hacked your entire website or put some malicious or suspicious files inside your database or content. That was most annoyed and disappointed time because your entire efforts are going to be in a ditch. Someone (Hackers) getting benefits and putting your entire site into spam, and from Seo perspective Google doesn’t like that websites. Google doesn’t like that website, which have no security and can be taken down easily. If your website or blog have robust security so that is additional plus point for your website ranking. In this article, you will learn about how to tackle hacked WordPress websites by using following tactics.
Tackle Hacked WordPress Websites:
Step 1:
First of all, you should need to purge your entire website from suspicious data. Hacker can make unknown directories or folders in your hosting root directory such as wp-content/sneak or wp-content/dumb etc.
If you find these unknown or suspicious directories of files simply delete it. Keep remember that, before delete any file on server-side first take backup before perform that task because it may be the cause of server down issue.
Step 2:
If you are using WordPress so problem can be belonging to your theme, only if you are using cracked version themes on your website. So you should be aware about installed theme that is suspicious or malware contains or not. To clear these doubts about your theme simply install this plugin Theme Authenticity Checker (TAC), to check it out your theme contains the malicious files or not.
Step 3:
Secondly, to search or analyze your all database files you should also need another plugin name is Exploit Scanner, it will scan your all server files respectively and will let you know about suspicious files and their location.
Last but not least, you should check your website on sucuri once because it is a globally distributed security website to check it out or analyze your website suspicious files or hacked websites malware’s.
Hopefully, above methods will definitely help you to rid of these malicious malwares from your website. If there is any question regarding how to tackle WordPress hacked websites so must pass your suggestions and queries.
