Somebody sabotaging my WordPress site
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Help!!!
Not a techy by any means and got this pingback (whatever that is) this morning.
https://collectireland.home.blog
What is it even? It is highly dangerous and appears on Google searches for Collect Ireland. I have had my Collect Ireland site running for years now and this sort of outrageous messing is a serious development. Any help would be gratefully received. Thank you.
David Parks
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Please!!!! Or a contact number/email for somebody in WordPress before my site is terminally damaged!!!!
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Hello,
Your site http://www.collectireland.com is a WordPress.org site
This is a public forum which provides support only for the sites hosted on WordPress.com.
Another support forum for WordPress.org self-hosted site is present, you can navigate to WordPress.org forum using this link:
https://wordpress.org/support/To learn about the difference between the WordPress.com and WordPress.org please refer this article:
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poojashetty18 – the site in question is a WordPress.com site. You can see that imformation with a whois search.
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Hi David –
Thanks for getting in touch. The best thing to do, is to use this form and make an official report against https://collectireland.home.blog.
After submitting that form, someone from our team will review the information and follow up via email.
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I have tried reporting it but your site doesn’t ‘t allow me to send – there is no send button! I already reported this to Trevor hours ago but he can’t be bothered to reply to me.
David
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Also, Trevor told me that I can delete the comment – stating the bleeding obvious – but I can’t get rid of the malicious site! One look at it and anybody with half a brain can see what a libellous load of damaging nonsense it is.
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Hello David,
Just to clarify, you are correct, you have a WordPress.com site, and submitting that report at:Is probably a good thing to do, but I ran a whois on the malicious site and it looks like it’s NOT a wordpress.com site – which means it’s hosted elsewhere so there may be little to nothing that WordPress.com can do to have it taken down. (Please note, I’m just a community member, not a representative of WP). This means the malicious site is running on WordPress.org code, but is “out in the wild”.
I would start looking at links like this:
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-remove-false-libelous-information-about-yourself-online/
and the like, and possibly consider addressing the site in a rebuttal on your site (although that can have the unintended consequence of drawing unwanted attention to a dispute).
Hope you find this helpful, and good luck,
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Hi Matt
Many thanks for that. I have my fourteen-year-old chasing it down as he’s more likely to be better than any of us oldies at that sort of thing.
David
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Hi there,
but I ran a whois on the malicious site and it looks like it’s NOT a wordpress.com site
Did you load https://collectireland.home.blog/ in your browser? It shows the WordPress.com admin bar, the WordPress.com follow button, and WordPress.com attribution in the footer. It is a WordPress.com site, at one of the new free .blog subdomains we announced yesterday in https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/announcing-free-dotblog-subdomains/
David, I realise this is frustrating, but the report process Liz linked to above is the only way to report this site. We cannot help with this in the public support forums, as this is a terms of service matter and those are handled privately and by a dedicated team.
It looks like you’ve since successfully submitted a report to our terms of service team, so I’m closing this thread to further replies. Please be patient while waiting for a response from them.
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