Transfer an infected WordPress Website to a “clean” server

With simple and understandable steps

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 that they can use. For example, one might want to integrate multilingual functionality into one’s WordPress site, that is, to translate all the content of one’s site into languages ​​other than one’s mother language. He will then need to install an add-on to his site to integrate the functionality of the content translations. In this way, the end user will be able to choose the language in which the content of the site will be displayed from a beautiful button you have designed, or from a specially designed menu. On the other hand, the administrator of the WordPress site, as well as its authors, will be able to translate an article they want to publish from their native language to another, in a simple, easy and fast way. But this article is not here to teach you how to translate your content, so let’s leave that piece behind.
So with the integration of add-ons, a problem was indirectly created. This problem, in many cases is not considered a problem, but a feature of these sites…