Discovering your WordPress site has been hacked can be a heart-stopping moment for any website owner.

Over the years, we’ve not only heard from countless readers facing this nightmare scenario, but we’ve also directly helped users in recovering their hacked websites.

What I’ve seen happen so often is that a website owner will clean up their site on their own only to get hacked again. There’s a reason for this which I’ll explain in this guide.

I’ll walk you through it step by step on how to identify a hack, fix it, and also fortify your website so that there’s no chance of getting hacked again.
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