Kind of back. Perhaps.

And again, like a miracle, new life.

I followed the recipe from my webhost, Dreamhost, who were the ones who discovered the hack in the first place and did what they could to clean it out. They could not get at all files though. They advised me rather strongly to follow a procedure for removing the previous installation and installing a new, clean one. I have done so both for this and the Slice of life blogs. After some experimenting, both are back with all the content intact. Sort of.

See, it is no longer possible to comment, or to go to a single post (for instance from the list in the right margin). The posts seem not to be on the server, even though they show up when viewing the blog at its top level / front page.

Even a new post, written after I rebuilt the blog, will appear in the same way. It shows up just fine at the front page, but it cannot be commented on. Which was one of the main benefits of using a blogging platform, I guess. Sorry about that.

EDIT: Found and fixed it. I had to go to the Settings page  “Permalinks” and even though it seemed to remember the chosen format (and indeed it did), I had to save it again. Immediately it sprang back to life.

The extended comment options are currently disabled because these were the only remaining repositories of the infection, in the previous installation. I am not sure if this means some of you will have to register anew. You will not be able to log in using various other popular identities like Google, Facebook etc for the time being. It’s not like I have a crowd here anyway.