altering footer code kills theme

  • stephenjames716

    (@stephenjames716)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    Hello everyone,

    Thanks for taking a look at my post.

    I am using a free theme that has some spam links in the footer. Originally, the footer was encrypted, but I just replaced that code with the html that I obtained via firebug.

    Does anyone know what the general method used to disable a theme when altering footer? I don’t see any php code in the footer, header or functions files that relates to this.

    Any advice would be appreciated.

    Thanks.

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  • Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    If your theme had encrypted spam links in the footer how can it trust it not to have a backdoor as well. Ditch it & get an honest GPL theme.

    benjamin

    (@berksted)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Haven’t used an encrypted theme but I think cubecolour is right.

    Here’s a link about to decrypt an ecoded theme:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-decrypt-an-encoded-theme?replies=3

    Thread Starter stephenjames716

    (@stephenjames716)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    thank you for your replies.

    I am able to decode the footer by viewing the page source of the page and then copying/pasting the footer code into footer.php.

    But after that when I alter even the <p> tags in the footer.php file it kills the theme upon refresh, all I see is “Please do not alter the contents of the footer.”

    Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Seriously get an honest theme. Whoever made the one you are using is trampling over the GPL by not only forcing spam links into your site, but it sounds like there’s a function that runs to check whether the code has been altered.

    Thread Starter stephenjames716

    (@stephenjames716)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    thank you

    Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    yup, probably something either in, or included in your functions.php which is checking on the footer. You might be able to get rid of the function if you understand what is going on, but you are better getting a reputable theme

    Thread Starter stephenjames716

    (@stephenjames716)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    just in case anyone else is looking to accomplish this, I was able to hit the problem portion of the footer by setting the css of that div to display:none

    Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Not a very good solution I’m afraid. Search engines will still see the spam links. Won’t be much good for your own ranking.

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