Popups on site and idk where they're coming from

  • Hi guys! I need some help getting rid of popups that I didn’t ask for! Here’s the website in question: https://thehighlandernews.com

    Story behind all this:

    I used to be the web admin of my high school’s newssite (which runs on WP) until I graduated 2 years ago. After I left, some kid took over my position and decided to hide his own google ad code all over the site during the year, profiting off of a SCHOOL WEBSITE. He graduated now and has left his code all over the website I painstakingly built in my junior year of high school, and my journalism teacher is also pissed. He’s not responding to any attempts to contact him.

    I already got rid of the google ads he put up, but he has popups on the site that I don’t know how to get rid of. Any suggestions?

    Things I already tried:
    searching for keywords “adsense” and “google” and “click”
    switching themes
    deactivating all plugins and seeing if the popups leave. (They didn’t.)

    I appreciate your help in advance! Hopefully we can get this solved before the school year really kicks into motion. ??

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Unfortunately, they could be buried rather deep. The process will be similar to cleaning up a hack, technically it could even have been a hack rather than the student.

    Remain calm and carefully follow this guide. When you’re done, you may want to implement some (if not all) of the recommended security measures.

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