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Can you restore a deleted user?

  • @ridecbrcom-1

    Participant

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Somehow one of the members on my site had their email compromised. The person who got into their email account managed to find my site, reset the password for the account, get the new password, log in, and they deleted the user’s account.

    The problem has been solved with a password change on their email account, but now their member profile is gone, they don’t show up in my user’s panel on wordpress, but their avatar shows up on the bbpress forums so it’s pulling the information from somewhere.

    I welcome any suggestions or ideas, and thank you for taking the time to help.

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  • @djpaul

    Keymaster

    11 years, 8 months ago

    If your server has backups of your MySQL database, you could restore it. Otherwise, no.

    🙂

    @ridecbrcom-1

    Participant

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Hi @djpaul – Thanks for the response.

    I have backups of the database, but not really versed in mysql.. Is there a step by step restore guide out there or could you point me in the right direction on what to do next?

    @mercime

    Participant

    11 years, 8 months ago

    @ridecbrcom-1 first, back up your current database. Then read this https://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup -> Using phpMyAdmin

    @ridecbrcom-1

    Participant

    11 years, 8 months ago

    @mercime The problem is, my backup is a few weeks old for the database and there has been a hell of a lot of information posted/added since then. Plus a bunch of new members.. Can I isolate the one member and re-establish their account only?

    @hnla

    Participant

    11 years, 8 months ago

    Yes but you will need access to a graphical frontend for your DB i.e phpMyAdmin, you’ll then need to restore your backup to a new DB so that you can check the table rows, identify the user in question and copy the details of the fields into a new row in the user table of your production DB having FIRST backed up your current live DB for safety – not going to be an easy process if your not familiar with this sort of thing, perhaps there’s an easier route but can’t think of one at the moment.

    @ridecbrcom-1

    Participant

    11 years, 8 months ago

    I’ll look into it to see if it’s something I can tackle.

    If anyone has any easier routes, please chime in.

    Thank you all for your help thus far.

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