It was over a month ago I got the email from my web host:
“You’ve got malware on your site. We’re shutting it down until you fix it.”
Yikes! I knew some of the WordPress plugins were old and possibly corrupt, but I didn’t think it would come to this. Still, I wasn’t worried. I’d been backing the site up pretty regularly. So I nuked the whole thing from orbit (the only way to be sure)… then couldn’t get my backup to restore properly.
Until now.
The good news is, with the help of a friend, I was eventually able to recover all my old posts.
The bad news is that I lost all my images and will have to rebuild the themes and whatnot from scratch. And even that’s not terrible news. I was planning to re-do the look of the site anyway.
(Hmmm. I seem to have lost all my tags as well. Luckily, the “categories” feature still seems to be working, so if there’s a particular subject you want to read up on, such as “World Building” or “Game Design,” you can hit those links on the left.)
