How Do You Know Your Wordpress Has Been Hacked?

One of my clients found out the hard way her old Wordpress site had been hacked. You can read about what we had to do to appease Google.

If you follow the advice below, you can find out if your site has been hacked — before Google blackballs you.

The first thing you need to do is login to your Wordpress admin and check the version statement at the bottom of the page.

• Is your Wordpress showing the current version even though you haven’t upgraded?

Head over to your user area and see if there is anyone that shouldn’t be there.

• Is there an extra user called “wordpress that you didn’t add?
• Are there any users that obviously aren’t actual readers?

Now, you need to check your uploads folder (either through FTP or cPanel).

• Are there any images that you have not uploaded, but that have similar names to what are already there?

If you have answered yes to any of these, changes are, your Wordpress has been hacked.

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