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lennartrip
(@lennartrip)

12 years, 5 months ago
Hey there,

I’m having a problem with one of my wordpress sites.
When I view my pages while I am logged in as admin nothing is wrong.
However, when I am viewing my pages while I’m not logged in as admin something strange happens: a spam link is added near the footer.
This is the page HTML source when I am not in admin mode:
```
<a href="http://techetheatre.org" style="color#333; font-size:0.8em;">happy wheels</a>
        <div class="pagenumbers">
                </div>

    </div>
    </article>
</div></div>
    </div>
</section>    

            
        <footer id="colophon" role="contentinfo" data-role="footer" data-position="fixed" data-fullscreen="true">
            <div class="row   row_id_delimiter123 "><div class="delimiter  twelve columns"><div style="border-top: 1px dotted #cecece;" class="delimiter-type pointed margin_30px "></div></div></div><div class="row element row_id_copyright "><div class="copyright align-left six columns">            <p class="copyright">Copyright © 2013 <a href="http://annekezuidema.nl" target="_blank">Anneke Zuidema</a>. Alle rechten voorbehouden.</p>
        </div><div class="socialicons align-right six columns">
        <ul class="cosmo-social align-top">
```
The <a href="http://techetheatre.org" style="color#333; font-size:0.8em;">happy wheels</a> code is not in the source HTML of the page when I am logged in as admin.

I have no clue how to resolve this problem, I want to remove the link, I have checked all template files, CSS files, PHP files and searched for ‘happy wheels’ but it didn’t find anything.
How can I fix this? I will make a donation to the person that can help me solve this.

EDIT: This is the link to the page http://www.annekezuidema.nl/?page_id=340 scroll all the way down and you will see a link to ‘happy wheels’. This is what needs to be removed.

Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total)

Krishna
(@1nexus)

12 years, 5 months ago

Revert to a default WordPress theme and see if you still have those links.

Thread Starter lennartrip
(@lennartrip)

12 years, 5 months ago

No I don’t have them on the normal themes, so I think it is theme related, still i’d like to know how to delete it.

Vignesh Pichamani
(@viky081)

12 years, 5 months ago

Take the backup of your theme and find the filename as footer.php then remove that particular line or just comment that line

Krishna
(@1nexus)

12 years, 5 months ago

You need to change that theme or ask the theme vendor as to why he is inserting those links.

EDIT: Go through this article – http://www.chipbennett.net/2010/12/10/only-download-wordpress-themes-from-trusted-sources/

Thread Starter lennartrip
(@lennartrip)

12 years, 5 months ago

I’ve already been through the footer.php file, but I can’t find anything related to this link.
Actually i’ve tried every file on the server and couldn’t find anything.

SWP242
(@swp242)

12 years, 5 months ago

Had the same problem.
Found in the below line in content-page.php and removed.
Hope this helps.

<?php if (!current_user_can( 'manage_options' )) { echo '<a href="http://www.happy-wheels-2-full.com">happy</a>'; } ?>

Thread Starter lennartrip
(@lennartrip)

12 years, 5 months ago

SWP242 thank you for replying.
Just can’t seem to find the content-page.php or anything that echos ‘happy wheels’ in any of the other PHP files.
Any idea which other files could be echoing this?

SWP242
(@swp242)

12 years, 5 months ago

lennartrip,

It can be very frustrating at times to spot the culprit.
Would you mind if I email you though your website contact page?
A second set of eyes looking can sometimes find something that someone else may have otherwise missed…

Regards,

WPyogi
(@wpyogi)

12 years, 5 months ago

@swp242 – please keep help on these forums as per the forum guidelines – http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Helping_Out

SWP242
(@swp242)

12 years, 5 months ago

WPyogi,

Understood.
My apologies for not having read through the guidelines.
the wordpress guru
(@the-wordpress-guru)

11 years, 11 months ago
@swp242 hi did you get the solution;
here the solution;
go to the includes folder from your server and find the single-post.php file and you will find the annoying script;
```
<?php if (!current_user_can( 'manage_options' )) { echo '<a href="http://techetheatre.org">happy wheels</a>'; } ?>
							<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link"><span>' . __( 'Pages:', 'tl_back' ) . '</span>', 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>
```
DELETE IT and you set!!!