[Tom Davis]

Hi Greg,

A Cbox site I support was also hacked recently with what looks like similar results as your site.

Doing a Google search with the “site:” operator shows similar spammy results. ( site:planetearthlings.org ) Look several pages into the search results to see the spam.

I would not be too hasty to blame plugins – I feel like companies just start with that as a reason. We were totally up to date and we are just using the plugins we need. I could just as easily blame the hosting company – for me it is all a mystery.

I feel like I found all the bad code in the site, but only time will tell. Our plan right now is to hope we are good. But if we are hacked again, we will probably call on WordFence to clean the site and begin using that service – it is not all that expensive compared with the problems. I am not promoting WordFence, there are others – it is just what we decided. Not being a security or coding expert, sometimes you need to buy a little help!

Good luck!

Tom

[Tom Davis]

Thanks for that info. Late yesterday I realized that if I disabled the CBox plugin, I could update bbPress. so I did that, the re-enabled CBox – that worked. Your solution is probably better.

 

Thanks!

[Tom Davis]

Hi Scott,

While this did not get me all the way there, it did open a new avenue that lead me to the solution.

In the members/member-header.php file of the theme (child theme of course) I added:

<p><?php the_author_meta(‘description’,bp_displayed_user_id()); ?></p>

just after the beginning of the “item-meta” div.

This was exactly what I needed.

Thanks for chiming in!

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