Site security, updating through FTP

  • Hey guys, I appreciate any help you all can offer me here. I’m not a professional, just trying to scrape by and keep my website online. My hosting company took down http: capabilities of my site this week due to some sort of spam coming through one of our unsecured forms. I want to fix the problem but they won’t re-enable http capabilities so I can do all the updates from the dashboard, I have to use FTP. After reading the codex, it says to “Delete the old wp-includes and wp-admin directories on your web host (through your FTP or shell access).”

    I just want to be sure that this will not delete any of my content. Am I understanding that it will leave my content and theme intact?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    That is correct, all of your content is in the MySQL database, and all of your themes, plugins, and uploads are under the /wp-content/ directory.

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