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  • Hey Guys,

    Have no clue why this is happening....my wordpress website is running fine, but when I try and log in to the wordpress wp-admin for my site, the login page won't load and I see a message in the top left corner that says 'lol'. Have I been hacked? How do I get rid of this and see my admin login page again?

    Thanks in advance!

  • Yea, you have been hacked.

    add this line into your functions.php file right after the opening ?php tag, make sure "your_new_password_here" is actually the password you want to use, make sure it is not the same as before else, it could be compromised.

    wp_set_password('your_new_password_here',1);

    then go try to login with the pass you just set, once you get in, go delete the line out of your functions.php file and reupload it.

    I highly recommend you find a good security plugin...WP better security is a great one...also, make sure you are running some form of backups too...

  • Hey I tried as you said but still get the 'lol' screen when I go to my login page which is : http://vigourdynamicfitness.com.au/wp-admin

    Here is my script for my functions.php file, have I got it laid out correct? I just put in 'Newpass1' as the temporary password....

    <?php wp_set_password('Newpass1',1); // Add RSS links to <head> section automatic_feed_links(); // Clean up the function removeHeadLinks() { remove_action('wp_head', 'rsd_link'); remove_action('wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link'); } add_action('init', 'removeHeadLinks'); remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator'); // Declare sidebar widget zone if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) { register_sidebar(array( 'name' => 'Sidebar Widgets', 'id' => 'sidebar-widgets', 'description' => 'These are widgets for the sidebar.', 'before_widget' => '
    ', 'after_widget' => '
    ', 'before_title' => '

    ', 'after_title' => '

    ' )); } // Navigation if (function_exists('register_nav_menus')) { register_nav_menus( array( 'main_nav' => 'Main Navigation Menu' ) ); } ?>