Greetings Schmitty’s Toonsters! I finally got the site back up and working after being hacked by a vicious ‘Phantom’ hack! It’s almost as scary as it sounds… the hack targeted some of the vulnerabilities in the WordPress code and it was causing visitors to be redirected to random pharmaceutical websites that obviously had no affiliation with this one.
I ended up restoring everything to a previous version of the site and insodoing added a few security plug-ins… hopefully this will ensure that it does not happen again moving forward. There have been some great benefits to designing with Wordpress, but there have been quite a few downsides to it as well.
In the end, I lost some of the content and a few of the most recent posts in this process, but so far, everything seems to be working again now! In the comments below, please report if you happen to find any broken features on the website that I still need to address. It is greatly appreciated!