scapegoat

Thanks for the resources!! I did take most of those steps actually. I called 1and1 and they scanned and quarantined the issue files, and told me which files had malicious code, the functions.php and index.php.

I checked my personal internet security log and found that withing 24 hours of my site going down, a trojan was neutralized on my computer.

I also started a fresh wordpress install, rerouted the database, checked the db for unusual content and didn’t find any…nonetheless, I found this just now in the .htaccess file:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Is this normal??

Also, more info: the hackers exploited a old timthumbs vulnerability for an outdated theme I was using. I ditched that theme in my new installation. Timthumb vulnerability
I also still can’t get the new installation to work with the database.

Thanks esmi and Ursula for your advice. However, I am still encountering the issue.

I have since tried a few things, and instead run into out of memory error codes in media.php on line 254, 1006.

I have TRIED creating a php.ini override file to adjust memory_limit, and also tried adding code into wp-config.php and .htaccess with no success. Perhaps I’m not putting the file in the right place (tried the website’s root folder), or using incorrect syntax.

Or should I bully my web host more? They have not been particularly helpful, and seemed to have dodged around the idea of changing the php.ini settings on their end.

Or do I just need to reinstall WordPress

Any advice and/or experience in the matter would be highly appreciated.

It sounds as though you want to change the hierarchy of your different pages. To do that you need to, in the dashboard, click pages, go to edit, and for each page you want to modify the hierarchy for you just look to the right panel, and the default for parent page will be “none”. Just change that accordingly.

-Scapegoat

Oh man, thanks so much! This was a nightmare!

unfortunately, that didn’t work.