Hopefully so. Seems that I was a bit deficient in keeping one of my WordPress installs up to date, which allowed a spammer to eventually take over and disable (for me, anyway) every WordPress-based site I manage. I’ve taken something of a shortcut (avoiding a complete wipe and rebuild) in restoring things, so I’m still not entirely confident it’s fixed. In any event, if you maintain your own WordPress installs, my advice is that you look well beyond backing up your database, but also to image directories, modified templates, plugins, etc. That way, even if you have a similar problem, you can spend your weekends doing enjoyable things, and not tedious manual restorations.
Month: May 2009
Learning several hard lessons about security and backups, at the moment. Back soon, I hope.