blurry header

i have to change my passwords and update even after a few months? how am i to clean it – i haven’t even finished building it.

No you should not have to, there are many ways to keep a site clean – nothing is perfect but introducing sound secure principals greatly reduces the chances of getting hacked. That said, like all software, keep it up to date and all passwords should be changed on a reg basis…a good security measure – that and using strong ones, and one strong password for every account/login/computer – using the same password can lead to all your online logins being hacked (like your bank, facebook, work, email). No matter how many really smart folks out there do all they can working to make stuff more secure, some ****heads will find a way to break it – then tell all their criminal friends – it’s about theft…

You have been provided the links in this thread, they require study and a full understanding…If you do not, it would behoove you to hire an expert who does.

how am i to clean it – i haven’t even finished building it.

You need to see all the resources already posted and FORGET building the site until you’ve addressed the hack problems. You’re really wasting your time until you do that.

And as Seacoast said, if you aren’t able to do that, you really should hire someone. Securi is well-regarded from what I’ve seen.

i made a child theme but because everything is so recent, i’m guessing that both back ups are infected – how can i tell?

simply by uploading my back up files?

the site came up clean:

https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/sergiosalina.com

Hello all!!
does anyone know how to make the header crisp?

I just visited your site. The image is scaling with the size of the page using CSS (or javascript but I’m reasonably sure it’s just CSS).

In all the excitement of this topic (gripping stuff, a real page turner, I could not put it down) how exactly did you generate that image? The original doesn’t look crisp.

https://www.sergiosalina.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cropped-header500.jpg

The resizing will completely ruin the crispyness of that image. That will never, ever, ever, display crisp when it’s resized in the browser and WordPress’s built in cropper won’t do a good job either. Honestly.

See this image? It’s great.

https://www.sergiosalina.com/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/images/headers/lanterns.jpg

What I suggest you try doing is create the crispy’est image you can and try replacing that uploaded cropped header with it. Create that new image in something like photoshop and save it as the highest quality jpeg that you can.

If that works (I don’t think it will with any resizing) great. If it doesn’t work please consider hiring someone versed in web design.

On that note (and as this topic has well and truly been exausted) I’m closing this thread.