Trying to Reinstall WordPress from Manual FTP Content Backup

  • Hi all,

    I’m in a tricky situation. I received word from my hosting service that my directory contained malicious files. They would not let me access the WordPress login to make a proper backup so I was only able to download all the content through FTP and export the MySQL database from my hosting service. I then had to delete all the files in my WordPress directory through my FTP.
    I am wondering what the best way to get my WordPress site back up and running to how it was before. Is it possible to just re upload those old “wp-admin”, “wp-content”, “wp-includes”, etc folders/files and the database and have it pretty much looking the same. And if so how do I go about that.

    Thanks in advance!

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Get clean copies of the themes, plugins, and wordpress itself from www.ads-software.com and replace all the files you uploaded. Keep only wp-config.php and wp-content/uploads (after checking for malicious stuff). Upload that and then create a new database and import your mysql dump. That’s the best way to do a “clean and safe” restore.

    Thread Starter nojank

    (@nojank)

    Sorry for the nooby question, but do you mind running me through the file replacement a bit more step by step. Thanks

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    You already have the directory structure because you downloaded it, so you need to retain the structure but remove the files (other than those in wp-content/uploads) and replace them with files from www.ads-software.com. Once you have that all done, you can FTP it back to your host. You need to assume every .php file you downloaded is contaminated.

    Thread Starter nojank

    (@nojank)

    Do you know the best way to “clean” or scan those php files?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I do, but unless YOU know PHP really well, it’s not going to work. So, assume they’re all bad. Delete them and use clean, safe files.

    @nojank if you still need help, please let me know and I’ll give you more details on how you could clean your installation and bring back online your website. I see the post is pretty old so most probably you already solved this issue. I’ll follow this thread so let me know if you still need help!

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