Is there any way to restore deleted posts?

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  carolkaynorasg · Member · May 29, 2012 at 8:46 pm

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  Our account was hacked and all posts deleted. (A user’s login credentials were compromised.) Is there any way to restore the deleted posts?
  Blog url: http://seagrantweek.wordpress.com/

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 29, 2012 at 8:49 pm

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  Go to posts > all posts and see if they are in the trash. If they emptied the trash, the I doubt that staff can do anything about it.

  This is why it is important to only have one administrator on a site, and to have virtually everyone else set as an author or a contributor. Save the editor role for only those that you seriously trust.

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  justpi · Member · May 29, 2012 at 9:35 pm

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  You can also restore at least some of your content from a cahed version of your page:
  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=cache:http://seagrantweek.wordpress.com/&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

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  carolkaynorasg · Member · May 29, 2012 at 10:09 pm

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  @thesacredpath, The trash wasn’t emptied, so I restored all the posts, thank you so much!

  But there’s more malice afoot. Apparently a YouTube video is appearing and then disappearing on our blog. I deleted all users besides myself and my co-administrator. The account that was hacked into was just an editor, not an administrator. So in theory, this YouTube addition should not be possible. In any case, it is NOT a good video for a governmental program to have on the front page of their blog. So now more help is needed.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 30, 2012 at 4:39 am

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  Are you entirely certain it’s not just an ad? If it is, get the No Ads upgrade. I don’t see anything on the page that shouldn’t be, leading me to think it’s an ad.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 30, 2012 at 4:52 am

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  You are welcome. Editors can insert videos, as can authors, but contributors cannot.

  I’m glad that the perp didn’t know that you also have to empty the trash. I’m glad you got your stuff back.

  As @raincoaster says though, it could be one of the ads that wordpress runs on our sites to help keep the free things free.

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  carolkaynorasg · Member · May 30, 2012 at 5:21 pm

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  I don’t *think* a guy in just his underwear holding a beer and climbing on a rocking horse was an ad. I didn’t watch any longer to see where it went from there.