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1. mintydog
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   FYI, this plugin adds a hidden link "display:none" to the footer of every page of your website.

   $OUT .= '<a href="http://solariz.de/highslide-wordpress-reloaded" title="Highslide for WordPress Plugin" style="display:none">Highslide for WordPress Plugin</a>'."\n";

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/highslide-4-wordpress-reloaded/

2. kazancexpert
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   I deleted

   $OUT .= '<a href="http://solariz.de/highslide-wordpress-reloaded" title="Highslide for WordPress Plugin" style="display:none">Highslide for WordPress Plugin</a>'."\n";

   this strings from: highslide-4-wordpress-reloaded/functions.hs4wp.php

   and its gone..

3. rediris
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Plugin also adds more referral spam to your site in the header.

   delete this:

   $OUT .= '<a href="http://ucardo.com" title="The Smart QR Code on your Business Card" style="display:none">QR Code Business Card</a>'."\n";

   from highslide-4-wordpress-reloaded/functions.hs4wp.php

4. kazancexpert
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Thanks rediris. Although most plugins are free of charge, but users should be informed about these hidden ads. This is my opinion..

5. sweetrobot
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I JUST noticed this!? WTF!

   @kazancexpert - exactly. that's the only way to go about it.

   @rediris- thanks.

6. Andreas
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Funny. On my sites it's this
   

   <a
   href="http://ucardo.com"title="The Smart QR Code on your Business Card"style="display:none">

   and I just exchanged it against this`
   <a
   href="http://smmp.de"title="SMMP"style="display:none">`

7. TourAbsurd
   Member
   Posted 2 weeks ago #

   Just found out about this through an article about the Penguin update from Google: Google Penguin Targeted Many WordPress Blogs With Hidden Links In Plugins/Themes

   Didn't find the QR Code bit, but I did find the other link. Thanks for the info here. Saved me a lot of time, since I'm not much of a code jockey.

   Cheers.

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