Comments on: Hacked

By: mark

mark — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:05:07 +0000

Pete – sorry to hear this but thanks for the post. I too use WP on my blog.

By: Kevin Church

Kevin Church — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:04:56 +0000

Yeah, it’s super-common to see templates that have built in keyword links stuck in there so someone, somewhere can receive the boost in Google.

It’s a nasty, dirty, black-hat trick that I’d like to see go far away. Preferably to Greenland.

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:04:04 +0000

I had something like that in the footer of my site, too, but with links to mobile ringtone sites. It actually turned out not to be a hack of WP but something that had snuck in with a gallery plugin I’d uploaded to my server to try out. When I tried to delete the directory it was in, the permissions had been changed so it couldn’t be deleted. It’s worth checking out any plugins or apps on your server which you don’t use in case they’re the culprits.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:05:21 +0000

To do a sort of Time Machine for WordPress, just install this plugin http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2007/01/22/wordpress-database-backup-re-release-version-20/
Get a GMail account and then do an hourly backup emailed to Gmail. So if your database it lost you have an full backfrom from the time it went down.

By: brenda

brenda — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:54:51 +0000

F&^king bastards.

Fortunately my site isn’t editable from the WP dashboard, I do it via ftp. But still. Thanks for letting us know, Pete.

*changes passwords*