Uncover the Hidden Secrets to Fully Restore Your Hacked Website—Step-by-Step Recovery Exposed!
You can spin up your copied site in a local development environment, for example, using WordPress.com’s Studio, to analyze it later or perform your cleanup there.
5. Restore from a recent clean backup (if possible)
If you had the foresight to set up an automatic backup solution, restoring from a recent clean site copy is often the easiest way to fix your hacked website.
Make sure the backup predates the hack or suspicious activity. If possible, first load it on a staging site to run diagnostics before restoring.