The site’s new look comes courtesy of the recent worldwide WordPress hack that pretty much forced Hell to add a few hundred more reserved seats to its blazing confines. Hackers, to me, are right up there with violent criminals, tyrannical dictators and emo musicians as examples of “People I Would Not Brake For Should I See Them Crossing the Street.”

So basically, I had to go through a bunch of steps to fix the WordPress install and gather everything from my database, change passwords, etc. Everything should be good to go now.

And as an added bonus, my other site, Wine Welfare, was also part of the thousands of hacked sites. It took a worse hit than this one. So, onward to fixing that as well.

I know that I don’t really rely on these sites to make money, and there are FAR more important and terrible things happening in this world, but having a couple of your dinky little websites hacked is so stupid that it becomes incredibly annoying.

Ah well. To tell you the truth, I am enjoying this theme much more. Much cleaner, less “trying too hard” styling. The old theme was fun, and I worked very hard on it, but…change is nature.

Be sure to always update to the latest version of WordPress, whenever you see the notice at the top of your admin screen. If you run a WordPress site and think you may have been hacked, here are two articles that will help you clean out your install and start again, hopefully with all of your content intact (thank you, WP-database manager).

Hacked Site FAQs

Step-by-Step Cleaning