The WordPress installation was hacked with some sort of embedded redirect to “tigoe.net”. No idea why anyone would want to waste their time with that, but whatever.<\/p>\n
Didn’t see any easy way to fix it (nothing in the .htaccess file), so that installation was deleted and we now have a brand new one with all of the old functionality (and almost none of the content!). Looks like that Mayan prediction of a new beginning was surprisingly accurate.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: I’ve recently discovered that the site ended up wiped that first time due to Dreamhost’s server move. Turns out that someone had the same database name as I did, and when everything was consolidated onto the same server my database information got overwritten by that other blog’s. I’m using a more specialized name now, so hopefully such a thing won’t occur again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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