Personally, I back up my site with a plugin and don’t rely on my web host provider to create backups. ManageWP is a good option for website backups. However, if you need to upload your backups to own cloud storage (like Amazon S3, Dropbox) from ManageWP, you have to pay the extra fee for that … Read more
GDPR is about data collection, if a theme, plugin or any other software for that matter is not collecting any data especially personal data aka data and/or information that could potentially refer to a natural person than you don’t need to worry about GDPR. If you or the plugin and/or theme aren’t collecting anything than … Read more
You can reinstall WordPress manually, don’t delete your wp-content folder and unzip the file from https://wordpress.org/latest.zip. Check this Article https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress#Manual_Update Thanks !!!
I found out enough information as to where these files came from, which for the moment is enough to satisfy me: These were templates added by an update to a plugin (called Thrive) that handles janky website building atop WordPress. After going through numerous sites I found that the templates were all slightly different with … Read more
My security knowledge of WordPress is not that deep, but I believe this might help you a bit: – First find the vulnerabilities, once you know which one exists, research and find out how to fix it specifically. To find: – The WordFence Plugin is very good for this. – https://forum.fsocietybrasil.org/topic/992-wordpress-scan-vulnerabilities-and-malwares/ Here is a list … Read more
The in-famous Unable to locate WordPress Content directory (wp-content) and the Direct Method
This is a multi prong question. It sounds like you are asking what to do if your site gets hacked in the future, but it is vague enough that you might be implying it has already been hacked. If you have not been hacked yet, download a backup of your site as soon as possible … Read more
Robots.txt file not updating
Links to root domain from search engines don’t work, but direct links and links from other referrers do
The only way that I have found (and used) to get rid of ‘unauthorized’ code is to manually check everything. This includes changing access credentials for hosting, ftp, databases, admin-level users. Strong passwords, of course. reinstalling everything (themes, plugins, custom code) from known good sources via a manual FTP process. Also, reinstalling WP from the … Read more