Luka

This vastly depends on the things you want to achieve with that. Most popular plugins also have a documentation for extending them so that might be a good starting point.

You need to modify two entries in your database.

These entries are in wp_options table (note that prefix ‘wp’ might be something different on your site)

Which version of PHP are you using? Can you try changing to PHP7.X and check the results?

This would be a css solution:

footer .g-cols.vc_row .wpb_column:nth-of-type(2) {
  display: none;
}

However, this might not be the best solution. You’d want to either remove it from wordpress admin panel, or directly from the code.

@joetabora

I’d first start by checking the version of your installed theme. Maybe there has been an update that you missed and you’d just have to update it.

Can you “re-core” a theme?

That’s your other option. The ‘native’ wordpress way for this is to create a child theme, and then do the modifications in it. This way, you keep your main (parent) theme intact.

If new site domain is completely identical, then I’d say they have your code. It doesn’t necessarily mean they have access to your admin panel, there are other ways to get full theme’s code, as an example, you could have misconfigured apache (or any other web delivery platform you’re using) which would give acccess to your theme files. And that’s just one of the possibilities.

To answer your 2nd question, if everything’s secured and well structured, there’s no way to copy everything without sever access.

And lastly, you most likely don’t have to delete any of the users, but I’d advise changing all passwords.

The most common way wordpress sites get hacked is because of the weak password.

If you’re username was admin and your password was something like admin12345, then yeah, you could have been easily hacked.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by Luka.

Everything @sterndata mentioned should lead you to the solution of the problem if database is not corrupted. I’d also just add one more thing to the list:

while on admin page where users are listed, check ‘Inspect Element’ and see if any error pops in ‘Console Log’. If there’s something, this might be a good starting point for you to solve the issue.