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Sorry for the venting last night, dear forum-folks.

After a good night’s sleep and following instruction on another 4 blogs, I was able to get the blog in question up and running again.

No sign of the malicious javascript (yet).

Passwords are hard, ssh is enabled and plaintext FTP will no longer be used.

I’m surprised that much of the information I needed was not in the Codex itself, but on the many many blogs-about-blogs that are out there. I’ve read more blogs-about-blogs in the last few weeks that I’m kinda sick of blogs for now. And that sucks, because when I get done with my client’s blog, I need to update my own (which, thankfully, was not hacked).

SO THANKS for the TIPS! Sorry for the anger!

Perhaps there is a way to move the data from the old DB into the new MySQL db that was changed??

I can easily modify wp_config.php to point to the new DB, but I would prefer to move the data into it so I don’t have to copy/paste.

I’ll start searching for the loading data from one DB to a new one in the mean time.

UPDATED: I read about restoring MySQL databases, and I have followed the steps, I have added the correct credentials to the correct files. Backend works, but the blog still will not load.

.htaccess is correct.
wp-config.php is correct.
Dashboard works, and all previous entries are visible in the backend.

I receive NO error messages, I just get a blank page, no code when you try to view the source.

Ok, so I followed the advice on all of the posts, and I had to wipe the slate clean.

I backed up all images, exported the DB, and reinstalled clean copies of WP from the source. I modified wp_config.php with the DB settings/password/secrets/etc. Something isn’t right. The homepage is blank (nothing loads at all). I AM ABLE to login to the Dashboard and see that my posts & pages are safe. The SOURCE shows no trace of the random JS that was planted in the borked-blog that was deleted.

I have yet to install the Plugins, I want to get things working in a basic form before I waste time on that.

Why won’t the front page load? Anyone want to give me a more specific answer than “go read another out-of-date article”?

This is beyond frustrating.

Well, this is obviously going to be a lot of work. I’ll update this thread if I find anything interesting.

I don’t know where that line is coming from. I will dig through the links you have on your port and harden the installation.

Unfortunately, I have to go to a meeting right now, but I will report back later today when I have more time to dedicate to this issue.

Thanks for the tips.

Yes! Thank you!

https://downtownsandiegocondoguide.com/

I also have other GoDaddy hosted blogs, and they are not showing this particular behavior.

It is a Thesis blog, but they don’t have anything in their KB either. As I said in an earlier post, all plugins were not only deactivated, but moved to a different directory as well to rule them out. The blank dashboard page was still happening, even when stripped down to bare-WP.

Thanks for any advice or insight you may have to offer ??

Updgrade to WP 2.9.2 has been installed, but his behavior continues.

Does ANYONE have any idea why pages go blank on the Dashboard? I don’t mind, but the owner of the blog in question does not like to hear that no one has an answer.

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This is even stranger. Tested in IE8, and the Dashboard loads correctly and stays in the browser windows.

Firefox 3.6 on Win7 & Mac 10.4.11 and the latest Chrome (4.0.429.78 beta channel for Win7). Both fail to display that page correctly.

No loss of functionality, but I thought I would report this is unusual bug.

I have added the line above and re-logged-in in my browsers (trying one after another), but I am still unable to view the dashboard. Are there other config tweaks I can safely attempt?

A new behavior has been noticed. If I am very quick with the clicking, I can navigate to some of the other admin pages, which load correctly and stay in the browser window.

It appears that only the Dashboard is the issue.