To redirect or not

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  adgopal1 · Member · Dec 9, 2022 at 6:36 pm

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  Old admin inserted spam links in new pages in by creating hidden folders (wp-content/uploads). I have removed the links. But empty http links exist. Should I redirect the links to home page or put 404 or something else. Please advice

  
  
  

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Dec 9, 2022 at 9:29 pm

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  Hi,

  What is the URL of the site you are seeing this on? We’ll be happy to take a look and see if we can help.

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  adgopal1 · Member · Dec 10, 2022 at 5:12 am

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  Thank you for your reply.
  The website is
  

  [redacted by staff]
  There are 48 pages like this
  

  
  
  

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Dec 10, 2022 at 10:28 am

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  Oh, this site is hosted by Hostinger, not WordPress.com, so I’m afraid we’re not able to help with this. I’d suggest asking folks at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/ – these forums are the official support platform for WordPress sites like yours. Here, we can only help with sites built on WordPress.com. If you’d like to read more about the difference, have a look at this page:

  https://wordpress.com/go/website-building/wordpress-com-vs-wordpress-org/

  I hope that helps :)

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  adgopal1 · Member · Dec 13, 2022 at 9:51 am

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  Thank you so much for your help. Request you to kindly remove the website name and links so that they do not fall under malicious radar.

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  staff-95percentghost · Staff · Dec 13, 2022 at 10:54 am

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  Hi, generally we do not redact information that is not explicitly personal information; but we were able to redact your URLs from the thread in this situation.

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  adgopal1 · Member · Dec 14, 2022 at 2:41 pm

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  Thank you so much for the help.