After struggling with malware in my website for months I decided to use the nuclear option. After creating a full backup I deleted the entire site and started building my site back up from scratch.

At one point I hired someone to fix my site, and that seemed to work, but within a month the site began having problems again. I couldn’t log into the the wordpress admin, so I couldn’t edit any of the pages. A scan revealed that the malicious code was just EVERYWHERE.

Finding a permanent fix felt hopeless, but I also realized there were a lot of things on my site that I didn’t like. For instance, at one point I built some “real-time” climate diagnostics that required some back-end code to stay updated, but it was just too ambitious and never worked quite right.

I’m still proud of the blog articles I had written, but it’s not the worst thing to not have them online. I might be able to revive some of them.