montrealist

Wow, sounds like a lot of issues simultaneously.

1. Securing the site is tricky since it requires narrowing down how the site was hacked in the first place. It really depends on what you mean by “hacked and defaced”. Your image paths have ‘i2.wp.com’ in them, which suggests that you’re using the Photon module in Jetpack ( https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/i1wpcom-hacking-my-posts/), so maybe it’s just a configuration issue that prevents your images from showing up.

2. No clue, but if you say it started with WooCommerce then you need to look into how to retire it from your site. A good idea would be to have a separate WordPress install with the same theme, dedicated to only housing the online store.

3. I wouldn’t delete it since that’s where your images could be. What you _could_ do is move it up one directory, so that it’s not publicly accessible.

4. You can double-check with your host to answer that.

5. See #1.

6. Again, your host would be able to check for you.

Are you using W3 Total Cache or any other caching plugin by chance? Seems to be the culprit for a few folks here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/http-error-500-by-updating-to-wordpress-4-7/

Are you able to roll back the update? This would be the first thing to look into, once that’s done you could put up a copy somewhere else (in another folder on the server) and play with that (update/disable/enable plugins and/or themes to find out what breaks during the update).

Check out this post, very similar issue to yours:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/fatal-error-class-wp_post_type-not-found/

You’d need to look in the database. Cpanel usually has phpmyadmin tool for that. You need to contact your theme developer and get information on which tables to look in, as well as ask if there is another way to back up theme settings without accessing wp-admin or the database (perhaps they’ll have a script for you to run).

Not sure about the forum, but Polylang (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/polylang/) is free, actively supported, and versatile enough to be able to rename category names. As for the forum, you can just implement it as comments to posts with disqus.com – since each language will have its separate posts, the comments will stay specific to each. Just a thought – not sure how versatile you want your forum to be.

“works outside wordpress” – are you using the same user to test as the user that WordPress is running as on the server? Looks like file permissions issue to me.

It’s definitely possible – you’ll just need to bring it into the WordPress ecosystem (for example build it into a custom page template for a page on your site). You’d need some front-end coding skills for that – or someone who’s willing to do it for you.

Придётся скачать шаблон (как он называется кстати?) и заново перезалить все его файлы к себе на сервер.

Did you enter the CSS through Apppearance -> Editor in /wp-admin dashboard, or via a theme’s custom page (not originally part of /wp-admin)? For the former you can just use the file editor in CPanel to navigate to wp-content/themes/your-theme/style.css – the most likely location for most themes’ CSS. In case of the latter, you’ll most likely need to comb through the database.

Can you post a URL of a post with suspicious links?

Also, I would escalate this with Dreamhost – I would try to get a phone number and talk to a superior, a live person. If your hosting plan includes backups then there is no reason why they shouldn’t be able to do it.

Have you tried following this document?

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215768257-How-do-I-restore-my-website-

Sure, it does. I’d personally author my images somewhere like Photoshop, then upload. But if you prefer to do it with WordPress, there are some plugins out there for that:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search.php?q=crop

Yep, no problems. Maybe it’s your image that’s corrupt somehow? Try to save and upload this to your site:

https://placehold.it/300×250

Is the plugin Mailchimp for WordPress? If so there’s a setting you can use to redirect to a page upon successful signup:

https://mc4wp.com/kb/add-variables-to-redirect-url/

Do you have access to wp-config.php file? If so, what’s the database prefix (value of $table_prefix variable, i.e. $table_prefix = 'wp_'; )? There’s this question on WPSE citing custom table prefixes as an issue during upgrade; possibly you’re experiencing something similar.

P.S.: Please don’t rush changing things in that file just yet, it’s good to diagnose first.