Uncover the Hidden Secrets to Fully Restore Your Hacked Website—Step-by-Step Recovery Exposed!
Additionally, open the .htaccess file and look for suspicious code and redirect rules that don’t belong there. Besides that, check for additional .htaccess files in wp-content and its subdirectories. You may also want to check your file permissions.
If this seems to be outside of your skill set, get professional help or use a security plugin or malware scanner like Jetpack, WordFence, MalCare, or Sucuri Security.
10. Clean up the database
The WordPress database is another place you need to examine after a website hack. Cleaning it up manually is a painstaking process, especially if your database is very large. Therefore, the easiest way is usually to scan it with a plugin like those mentioned above.
