Melissa_McWilliams

It simply happened because you had no (or inadequate) security plugins on your website, and a hacker was able to get through. Sad that people do this.

I also recommend iThemes security (I use it in tandem with Wordfence with no problems). The free version has more than enough functionality to secure your site.

Give this a read– lots of helpful info here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/read-this-first-%E2%80%93-wordpress-43-master-list?replies=4

The first thing I tried was this (copy-pasted from the linked post):

“As a temporary work around look for define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true ); in your wp-config.php file and set that to false.

If you look in the wp-config.php file and find that WP_DEBUG is already set to false, then please contact your hosting service, and ask them for the proper way for you to disable the PHP display_errors setting on your website. The display_errors setting is a developer mode setting, and it should never be enabled for a live website.”

To get to the wp-config.php file, you will need to access your file manager through your host.

(Apologies for any mangled lingo or lack of clarity… I’m very new to WP myself and am just going by little snippets I’ve learned here and there.)

Thank you Tara. I will contact the developer directly.

I did post my own thread. I was not aware that my post constituted “thread hijacking.”

I’m having the same problem too, as of today (featured images disappeared). :\

Yikes! Apologies for an unhelpful answer, but which plugin was it that you installed, so the rest of us can steer clear?

Hope this gets fixed soon.