Transfer an infected WordPress Website to a “clean” server

George Papadopoulos
31 min readDec 12, 2021

With simple and understandable steps

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Introduction.

As we all know, WordPress has been developed to make our lives easier and simpler. Over the years WordPress has evolved into a powerful tool for Web Developers, but also a reliable ally for ordinary users.

Web developers can easily create and even manage their clients’ websites. But before we start with the main topic of our article, I want to remember a little about how WordPress started, and what it was meant to be.
WordPress started as a Blog. That is, a form of website that someone with even minimal knowledge of the subject of websites, could create, so that he can easily and quickly publish the articles he wanted, along with photos. As an example we could say that some remarkable cook could create a WordPress site, and upload her recipes there, along with photos of them. So, over the years, this system has evolved. Several things were incorporated, such as comments on a post, categorization of articles, creation of custom pages, and many other things. Along with these, a very remarkable, but with weak points operation was integrated. The add-ons.

For those who do not know, add-ons are some extensions, which one can install on their WordPress site, and give them some extra features…

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George Papadopoulos
George Papadopoulos

Written by George Papadopoulos

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George Papadopoulos was born in Veria, Greece in 2001. His hobby and his job is in the IT Sector, with interesting fields the AI and the backend technology.