Can we see a link to the site, to check what the link may be?
I believe people can hack your site and add links and all sorts of stuff through XSS attacks, but I’m not 100% and I’m certainly no security expert. I’m not sure of any plugins that could prevent this. I think this happens with the way your forms, input fields etc. escape the HTML content before submitting it to the database.
I’m not seeing the link anywhere on your post or in the source code. Is it still there?
Hello Evan, I had tried to delete the text. I have put it back now and the link is still there
can you attach a screenshot? I’m not seeing it.
Okay now to reveal my ignorance. I don’t really know how to take a screenshot. I think it is the prt sc button but where is the image stored?
Andrew Nevins
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You can upload it straight to the web http://snag.gy
Yea, what Andrew has said. You can really use any free image hosting site, and then just paste the URL here.
Blimey! Learning all the time!
Thanks Andrew
The link is (I hope) http://snag.gy/fl576.jpg
Have you published that post yet? I don’t see any of that text on the page when I click it. All I see is the title and image.
Yes. I have just looked again and reloaded the page, the text is there but it is above the image now
Have you tried deactivating all plugins and checking? Strange issue, seems like it may be coming from a plugin.
Yea I’m able to see it now , after refreshing my browser.
This is getting weird, The image you just showed me is what happened when I deleted the text to see if the link would go away. I put the text back and the link is still there. Can you see it in the screenshot?
I started to deactivate plugins but now W3 cache (i didnt deactivate W3 Cache)is giving the message
W3 Total Cache Error: some files appear to be missing or out of place. Please re-install plugin or remove /home/oldth940/public_html/wp-content/object-cache.php.
Yea W3 total cache is a wierd plugin as it required specific declerations in certain files and such. I keep finding stuff related to that link on google, but nothing telling me what it is or how it got there.
