How to Recover Hacked WordPress Login. Believe it or not this site was hacked and was fixed just a few moments ago. I am not sure how long it was hacked but I was able to fix it after a few minutes. Here is what happened.
I logged in to the WP-ADMIN page to login but was not able to do so. My admin account was gone and when I tried to use the password recovery function, it says that there was no such username or email address! So how did I fix this? Easy.
Given that I have some technical background on WordPress installations and MySQL, I used this to my advantage by checking out the WP database to check if my user account still exists. Unsurprisingly, my user account/admin account no longer existed but was replaced by some mysterious login. Hence, what I did was just edit this mysterious account and replaced the information with my own details. After that, I used the WP password recovery to reset my password and then I took this opportunity to upgrade to the latest WP version with the hopes of better security.
If you are not able to follow the vague summary above, here is the step by step walk through for recovering your hacked WP account:
Enter your host CPANEL and click on phpMyAdmin.
Once inside phpMyAdmin, select your blog’s database on the left.
Browse the wp_users table.
Find the hacked row and edit it.
Modify the user_pass column by a) selecting MD5 from the Function drop-down box and b) entering a new password in the Value text box.
Click/Press Go/Save to save your changes.
Create a new tab in your browser and go to your blog’s WP-ADMIN page.
Use the password recovery functionality to reset your password.
OPTIONAL BUT RECOMMENDED. Once your password has been reset and you are able to login once again, upgrade your WP installation into the latest version.
That’s it! If you have the same problem as I did a few moments ago, then just follow the steps above to fix the problem. If you are a programmer or a web developer, you should not have any problems following the instructions. Otherwise, just leave a comment below and I will try to help you the best I can.
Are you looking for the Greyson Chance Video? Well, you can find it below. The Youtube video of Greyson Chance playing live on the Ellen DeGeneres show has become an online sensation with the video acquiring more than 10 million views!
Chance is just a 6th grade but his talent and passion for music is that of a genius! Yes, he is a musical genius in his own right and some even say that he is the next Justin Bieber.
I am not going to delay you any further, here is the said video:
It has been a while since I last posted in this blog for various reasons. I have also thought of shutting it down but have decided against it for various reasons too. What is sure right now is that this domain is here to stay for as long as possible as this has a sort of a sentimental value to me being my first blog! So what updates do I have?
First, is that this blog is back. I might not be able to post as frequently as before but I will post on it every now and then. I laid low for a couple of months because something happened to this blog’s search engine rankings. I believe this blog was penalized by the Big G and my SERP fell down considerably. As a result, traffic was down (everything was down). But after a few weeks, the penalty was lifted and this blog is back online! I am not sure of the nature of the penalty but I tried my best to clean this blog of possible offenses Big G might frown upon. Fortunately, it worked.
One reason I wanted to shut this blog down was because it was formerly still using WP 2.5 while the latest version is 2.9.2! Yes it has been a long way and the auto-upgrade feature was absent from version 2.5. So the lazy guy inside me said that I should just shut down this blog. Fortunately I did not do so and stuck with the manual upgrade so that this blog now runs on a WP 2.9.2 . I’ll probably create a blog post on upgrading from a very old version of WP to the latest one since there are not a lot of posts on that around.
I am also planning to update this blog’s WP theme because it simply sucks. Yes, it is better than the first one but hey it still is ugly. I am no great designer so please bear with me. Creating WP themes is actually a way for me to exercise my web programming skills and not my design skills so the next theme will probably more minimalistic.
Okay so that’s it for now. See you soon.
And yes, I did no spell check or grammar check so please forgive me ;p
The famous Facebook game, Farmville, is going up one level by having its own website! Via www.farmville.com, farmville addicts will know be able to play the very addictive game without logging into Facebook.
Facebook down? No problem! Just go to farmville.com and you still should be able to play.
The question now is, where are you going to play Farmville? Are you old school and will be playing it classically via FB? Or are you going to open a new tab or window for farmville.com? That is a very hard question and you should sit down and think about it seriously
Why is Everyone Posting Colors on Facebook? Why? This is a question that has already been answered. But if you still do not know the answer, then the simple answer is … it turns out that it is their bra color of the day. Yes, some of our female friends have been posting colors to let the world know what the color of their bra is for the day.
So there you go guys, the simple answer to a simple question.
Here is another one of those forwarded emails that I want my readers to read because it is very beneficial to everyone. Once again, it is about cancer. And since cancer is a mighty enemy, we need all the information on it that we can get. This article pits green tea vs cancer and should answer questions like is “green tea, cancer cure?” Or “tea cures cancer?”
So here it is, a short article on green tea and how it fights cancer:
Green tea is one of the oldest beverages in the world. And one of the healthiest. Asian cultures have promoted the benefits of green tea for thousands of years. Lately, modern science has been catching up.
Researchers first gave credence to the anti-cancer properties of green tea, when we realized that the Chinese (at least those that do not live downstream of industrial pollution) have much lower rates of cancer than Western populations. Further research showed that green tea is a potent source of polyphenols, especially one called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). This compound has been shown to have powerful antioxidant and anti-cancer properties.
In a recent study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers gave a standardized form of EGCG to patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). This type of blood cancer is very slow growing, but also very hard to cure.
Ralph Moss, PhD reviewed the study in his newsletter, Cancer Decisions. According to Dr. Moss, 33 patients were treated with varying dosages of EGCG. The doses ranged from 400 mg up to 2,000 mg, twice a day.
After just one month of treatment, one patient experienced a partial remission. A third of the patients experienced more than a 20 percent decrease in the number of lymphocytes in their blood. And 11 out of 12 patients that previously had visibly swollen lymph nodes experienced a reduction of at least 50 percent in the size of these nodes.
The standardized form of EGCG that was used in the study is not available on the market. However, there are several reputable companies that produce EGCG as a supplement.
Two recent studies also show that green tea provides particularly powerful prostate protection (say that three times fast).
Italian researchers studied 62 men with a pre-cancerous prostate condition. Normally this condition would result in cancer in about 30 percent of cases. Half of the men were given a placebo. The other half consumed an extract of green tea daily. In the placebo group, 9 out of 30 men developed cancer. In the green tea group, however, only one out of 32 developed the disease.
This is consistent with a study of Chinese men which found that those who consumed the most green tea were two-thirds less likely to develop prostate cancer.
If you or someone you know is fighting cancer, taking a green tea extract or an EGCG supplement would be a great idea. And even if you’re not, do as the Asians do. Enjoy a warm cup of organic green tea as often as possible.
So there you have it, green tea is good in fighting off cancer.
