I need help someone crashed my site

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    Hi! I am hoping that someone with wordpress might be able to help me. A while back, I hired a company called Doublet Media to build our website, content, and social media sites for us. Our website through wordpress was absolutely beautiful. After extorting thousands of dollars and blackmailing us, they finally crashed our website. I went to check orders one day and there was just nothing there. Is there any way that wordpress keeps any history that would enable me to get this site back? Them doing this almost destroyed our business. We were able to get a basic site back up, but we would love to have our original site back. Praying for a miracle!

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  • If the content is missing from the backend of the site, the company you hired to build it would be the ones most capable of fixing it. That seems like a problem best left to the legal system where you’re located.

    You can always run through https://codex.www.ads-software.com/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked if you believe your site was hacked. It might be able to provide you with some steps to restore a back up if one exists on your server.

    Is there any way that wordpress keeps any history that would enable me to get this site back?

    WordPress doesn’t by itself keep any history, no. It’s up to the site owners to make backups. But some hosting companies have backups too, so you could check with yours.

    You could also look at Google cached history of sites to see if any exist for your old version –

    https://www.cachedpages.com/

    also see:

    https://archive.org/web/

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    WPyogi’s idea of cached or archived sites is quite clever, but be aware that all you will get this way are static pages of your site’s frontend. The backend is not available, nor is your DB content. Still, the pages could be a very useful model in recreating your site. Since you are at odds with the site builder, your best hope is that your host has backups.

    You should also download all of the access logs for the time frame in which your site was removed. They could be crucial for any possible legal proceedings, and your host does not keep these for ever. In any case, legal measures are not going to help your business right now. Legal systems in most countries just move too slowly. At best, you might obtain financial compensation somewhere down the line, you’ll have to decide if that’s even worth pursuing.

    If your host cannot help with backups, you may be better off writing off the whole experience as lessons learned and start anew, maybe using cached pages as a model. If you do not have your own leads for potential reliable site builders, you might try https://jobs.wordpress.net/.

    Sorry for your troubles ??

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