Is Your WordPress Site Hacked?

In most cases, no. Hacks typically inject malicious code into your existing files rather than deleting your content outright, so your posts, pages, and media are usually recoverable. If you have a backup from before the incident, that further reduces any risk, share it with us if you have one.

For 30 days after our fix, yes, if the same issue recurs, we clean it again free. Beyond that window, ongoing protection against future attempts is what our WordPress maintenance plans cover, we’ll flag if that makes sense for your situation once we see what happened.

Yes, always. Your WordPress admin, your hosting account, and any connected services (email, FTP, payment processors). A hack is a strong signal that at least one of these was compromised somewhere.

Almost always one of three things: an outdated plugin or theme with a known, unpatched vulnerability, a weak or reused password, or a vulnerability in the hosting environment itself. We identify the real entry point as part of the fix, not just remove what’s visible.

Depends on what was actually compromised. If you run an e-commerce site, we’ll help you understand what was exposed. If payment or customer data may have been touched, we’ll walk you through the right next step, which can include notifying your payment processor.

Yes, but it requires an extra step beyond just cleaning the site: a security review request submitted to Google. We handle that as part of the fix once your site is actually clean, Google typically processes these within a few business days.

If the damage is severe enough that a full rebuild is genuinely needed, and no usable backup exists, we’ll stop and give you a clear, honest quote before doing anything further. You’re never charged for work beyond the flat fee without agreeing to it first.

This is one of the most common WordPress hacks there is. Attackers inject code that sends your visitors, and sometimes you, to a spam page, a gambling site, or somewhere else entirely, usually to hijack your traffic or your site’s search ranking for their own purposes. It’s not a settings issue or a plugin bug, it’s a sign your site has been compromised, and it needs to be treated as one.

Google shows two different warnings for two different problems. “This site may be hacked” usually means spam content was found. “This site may harm your computer” is more serious, usually malware or a malicious redirect. Either one means Google has already detected something on your site that needs to be dealt with.

It’s genuinely one of the more overlooked signs. Malicious scripts and unauthorized processes consume real server resources, so a sudden, unexplained slowdown, especially one that shows up out of nowhere rather than gradually, is worth investigating rather than dismissing as normal wear.

It means someone else has administrator-level access to your site. This is one of the clearest, least ambiguous signs of a breach, a legitimate plugin or update will never quietly create its own admin account. If you see a username you didn’t create, treat it as a confirmed compromise, not something to investigate later.

People often search for a “virus” on their WordPress site, but WordPress itself doesn’t get infected the way a computer does. What’s actually happening is almost always malware, injected malicious code, a backdoor, or unauthorized access, and it’s treated the same way regardless of which term you use to describe it.

This usually means someone else has been able to add or edit content on your site without your knowledge, sometimes obvious (a defaced homepage), sometimes subtle (a handful of spam posts buried in your blog). Either way, it means your site’s access has been compromised somewhere, not that something glitched.

Yes, worth acting on. Search Console flags security issues when Google’s own crawlers detect something concerning, malware, spam content, or deceptive pages, on your site, often before you’d notice it yourself just browsing. It’s a genuinely reliable early-warning signal, not a false alarm to ignore.