Hello,
I have a big concern regarding the theme…being a “genius” I’ve installed a version of Newspaper6 available for free online, so that I can check it out and see if I like it or not before I purchase it. I decided that I love it so I went ahead on themeforest and purchased the theme and started working on my site. I’ve deleted the old one and installed the new, original one. I am concerned for the safety of my site…in case maybe something is still running in the background. I’ve scanned everything for malaware and nothing came up. I know I was retarded not to test the dummy theme on my localhost, but i was too lazy to set it up.
the website is: http://tryhealthier.com
Cheers,
Vlad
Hi,
Unfortunately as the other version was definitely a pirated one (there is no free version of the theme), the code could have been altered so the best thing to do is to reset your database using the wp-reset https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-reset/ and delete your old wordpress instalation just to be on the safe side. Then you need to start over with a fresh database and fresh wp-install.
Thank you!
Hi,
You can compare the code from the theme you had before with the code in our theme (they must be the same version of the theme ) You can use a tool like: https://forum.tagdiv.com/compare-theme-files-winmerge-tutorial/
You can save your work by doing a wp back-up: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
Thank you!
And of course worth noting, “don’t use pirated software…” 🙂
Thanks for the answers, I will compare the theme files code. Can I check somehow the other files from the server besides the theme files? There are many files there I don’t know what each of them do, so I wouldn’t want to break anything…just to check them for virus or something… This is because I wouldnt want to get my hosting account suspended in case I have mallaware in my files 🙂
Hi
You can probably do a virus/mallware scan with anti-virus software. I think you should ask your host about it as they will probably have a better answer on how to properly do it.
Thank you!
