WordPress Site Hacked
If your WordPress site is doing something it shouldn’t — redirecting visitors, showing strange content, or locking you out entirely — it has almost certainly been compromised. This is more common than most people realize, and it is not your fault. Hackers don’t target you personally. They run automated tools that scan millions of sites looking for anything with an outdated plugin or a weak password. When they find one, they get in.
The important thing right now is not to panic — and not to wait. A hacked site that sits untouched gets worse. The malicious code spreads. Google notices and starts warning your visitors away. Your hosting company may shut the site down entirely. Every hour matters, which is why we respond the same day and explain everything in plain English, not tech jargon.
We clean it up, lock it down, and hand it back to you better protected than it was before. You don’t need to understand what happened to get your site back. That’s our job. Yours is to tell us what you’re seeing — we’ll take it from there.
Your site is hacked. Tell us what you’re seeing.
Fill out the short form below — just your site address, what is happening, and how to reach you. We will get back to you the same day.
What the Response Usually Looks Like
You tell us what you are seeing, what changed recently, and how urgent the problem is.
We confirm the symptoms, look for the actual entry point, and scope the cleanup before touching production blindly.
Malicious code, hidden access points, rogue users, and compromised files get removed, then the site gets locked down properly.
You get a working site, a plain-English explanation, and a written summary of what was found, removed, and changed.
Does This Sound Familiar?
Here are the most common signs that a WordPress site has been hacked. If any of these match what you’re seeing, contact us today.
- Clicking your site redirects visitors to a pharmacy, adult, or scam website
- Google is showing a red warning page when people try to visit you
- Your hosting company sent an email saying your account was suspended
- Your admin password stopped working and you’re locked out
- There are pages or posts on your site you didn’t create — sometimes in other languages
- Friends or customers are reporting something strange, but the site looks fine to you
- Your Google Search Console is flagging security issues
Why Did This Happen?
Most hacked WordPress sites weren’t targeted by a person — they were found by an automated program scanning the internet for easy entry points. The most common reasons a site gets compromised:
- A plugin or theme that hadn’t been updated — hackers know about security flaws in older versions and exploit them automatically
- A password that was too simple, or used on another site that got breached
- A free or pirated plugin downloaded from an unofficial source — these often contain malicious code by design
- Shared hosting — if another website on the same server was compromised, yours can be affected too
Knowing the entry point is part of what we fix. A site that gets cleaned up without closing the original opening will be compromised again within days.
What We Actually Do
Here is what a real cleanup looks like — in plain terms, no technical jargon.
- We go through every file on your site — looking for code that shouldn’t be there, hidden files the attacker left behind, and anything that was modified without your knowledge
- We check your database — the place WordPress stores all your content, which attackers often use to hide spam links or malicious redirects
- We verify your plugins and themes — making sure none of them have been tampered with
- We remove all the hidden access points the attacker left behind — so they can’t quietly walk back in after we’re done
- We check for unauthorized admin accounts — attackers often create hidden admin users so they can return later
- We reinstall the core WordPress files from a clean, verified copy
- We request removal from Google’s and your host’s warning lists on your behalf, once the site is confirmed clean
After the Cleanup — What Gets Locked Down
Getting the site clean is step one. Step two is making sure it stays clean. After every cleanup we go through a security checklist:
- All passwords changed — WordPress, hosting, database, FTP
- Login page protected against automated guessing attacks
- Unnecessary features that attackers commonly exploit are turned off
- File permissions set to secure defaults
- Recommendations for ongoing monitoring, explained in plain English
Why Not Just Use a Security Plugin?
Security plugins are useful for prevention, but they are not reliable for cleanup. The automated scans they run find common, well-known infections — but attackers know this, and they hide their code accordingly. Sites that get “cleaned” by a plugin alone are frequently compromised again within 24 to 72 hours because the hidden access points were never found or removed. We read the actual code. That’s the difference.
What to Expect Working With Us
We Have Seen This Before
Most people contacting us for a hacked site think they are looking at a weird one-off disaster. Usually they are not. Redirects, cloaked malware, fake admin accounts, injected spam pages, poisoned plugin files, and compromised shared hosting are all standard patterns. That is good news, because standard patterns can be diagnosed methodically and fixed properly.
You do not need to become a security expert overnight. You need somebody to identify the entry point, remove the infection completely, lock the site down, and explain what happened in language that makes sense. That is the job.
