{"id":951,"date":"2016-08-14T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.sydney.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=951"},"modified":"2017-04-26T16:00:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T06:00:51","slug":"tips-for-fixing-a-hacked-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/tips-for-fixing-a-hacked-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Fixing A Hacked WordPress Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress&#8217;s popularity has made it a prime target for hackers. Each day countless self-hosted WordPress sites are damaged or taken down, usually by automated attacks exploiting known vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Many WordPress site administrators only learn way too late about the important of pre-emptive security hardening after they have become victims of an attack and have suffered the consequences &#8211; loss of visitors, search engine ranking and damage to data.<\/p>\n<p>Vlad Lasky from Aussie WP Expert shares his strategies and approaches to recovering compromised WordPress sites.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Common ways in which WordPress sites are compromised<\/li>\n<li>Assessing the damage<\/li>\n<li>Determining the means of infiltration<\/li>\n<li>Recovering the WordPress installation<\/li>\n<li>Preventing reinfection<\/li>\n<li>Restoring Search Engine ranking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Om1iUWoqz3s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-AU&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<iframe src='https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/66888164' width='640' height='525' sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress&#8217;s popularity has made it a prime target for hackers. Each day countless self-hosted WordPress sites are damaged or taken down, usually by automated attacks exploiting known vulnerabilities. Many WordPress site administrators only learn way too late about the important &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/session\/tips-for-fixing-a-hacked-wordpress-site\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Tips for Fixing A Hacked WordPress Site<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5961639,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1474767000,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[1050],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[174742],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-951","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-room-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7aDMH-fl","session_date_time":{"date":"September 25, 2016","time":"11:30 am"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"1050","slug":"vlad-lasky","name":"Vlad Lasky","link":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker\/vlad-lasky\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2243,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/951\/revisions\/2243"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1050"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/vlasky"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydney.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}