About This Class

There could be many instances, where your or your client's WordPress site may be hacked or a malicious code has been added. These codes can prevent access to the WordPress dashboard or could be redirected to some other websites. Thus, this course is designed to give you an insight into how you can clean your WordPress website if it is infected. We will be cleaning all the WordPress files and folders except the database. Here's the brief of what's included in the course:

Scanning the website Online: There are numerous online Website scanners that can let us know if the website is infected or not. Additionally, we can get more information about the infected website.

Backing up the WordPress Website: It is always a good idea to backup the website - as in the process of cleaning the site, if you happen to delete anything important, we can always restore it via the backup.

Brief about what makes up a WordPress site: Knowing about WordPress and how it is composed will make it a little clearer while working on cleaning the site.

Cleaning the WordPress files and folders manually: This possibly is a slow yet effective approach to clean the WordPress website manually. It can assure that the malicious code has been deleted.

Scanning the Website with a Free Plugin: To re-confirm if the site is cleaned or not, we will learn about a Free plugin that will scan the whole website and let us know if the site is infected or not.