Title: How to hack this theme?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# How to hack this theme?

 *  [Blahtor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blahtor/)
 * (@blahtor)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-hack-this-theme/)
 * I want to use this theme but problem is that it has some unwanted links in the
   footer.
 * [http://www.wordpressthemesbook.com/blue-buzz](http://www.wordpressthemesbook.com/blue-buzz)
 * The footer is NOT encrypted but still, it cannot be changed.
    I tried the method
   that is used to hack encrypted footer code but it did not help. As soon as you
   change anything in the footer code, the theme stops working.
 * How to remove all unwanted links form this theme and still have it working?
    
   I suppose there are many other hidden links in other parts of the code too, not
   just in the footer. This is going to damage my SEO positioning.
 * I also want to remove that small banner that appears in the upper left corner
   of the front page posts – the one that shows how many comments the post has.
 * _[[please start only one topic per problem](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome)–
   i am moving this into the ‘hacks’ forum]_

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-hack-this-theme/#post-2151048)
 * Yeah, I’ve seen themes like that. They call a bunch of different functions, test
   variables and constants, etc. to cross check stuff. It may even check file size
   or parse some of its own files to verify theme integrity.
 * Just don’t use the theme. The legality of hacking it might be debatable but the
   ethics aren’t.
 *  Thread Starter [Blahtor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blahtor/)
 * (@blahtor)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-hack-this-theme/#post-2151056)
 * Well, okay, I will not use this theme.
    Is there a similar theme that I can use
   without the need of hacking it? I mean, I need something that arranges the posts
   in a table with two or more rows and does not just place them as one long continuous
   vertical row.
 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-hack-this-theme/#post-2151060)
 * Seriously, other than the ethical issue, trying to ‘fix’ one of these can be 
   a huge pain, and frankly, I wouldn’t trust a theme that contains that kind of
   complicated, self-preservation code. You don’t know what else it might be hiding.
 * Yes, I have seen those themes. I don’t know of one off the top of my head though.
   Maybe someone else does.
 *  Thread Starter [Blahtor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blahtor/)
 * (@blahtor)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-hack-this-theme/#post-2151082)
 * Maybe I need a plugin that can do this kind of arrangement for me?
 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-hack-this-theme/#post-2151206)
 * It isn’t really the kind of thing best fitted to a plugin– in my opinion, at 
   least. I’d look for a theme if it were me.

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