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This is creeping me out pretty bad!

How do I send you a jpg of it because obviously it will not post?

It’s 12:40 a.m. Sunday here…you must be in Australia?

Okay here goes: —-{ }—-

Now I added the —-{ & }—- at the beginning and end just because I wanted to block anything weird from happening. That’s funny because I have no idea if that would work or not.

Anyway, maybe what you and your readers see here is not so shocking but I removed it and left nothing ( completely blank ) in the footer.php and it removed the three links in the theme entirely. seemingly ( so far ) without any drawback or broken pages to the theme.

Now, I’m gonna go back and re-read this thread and make sure I check all the other potential spots you and others here warned of for the theme I’m using just to be safe.

Robert, you think there is anyway whomever wrote this code can tell it’s been removed?

If you say yes to the above I think I’ll just give up and go buy a spammy free template and be done with it.

Kinda frustrating to keep up with all the spammy stuff sometimes.

Peace,
Bernard

You can paste the code up here if you like, I can delete it if it does anything. Also Google won’t be crawling this page for another few days, so even if it does, it won’t hurt anyone.

By the way, the discussion is always good. If others have the same problem they can find the solution in the comments here.

I could have sworn that I opened the footer.php file in my text editor numerous times but I guess I either didn’t or I did not have the courage to delete the weird code found in there.

I would have pasted it in here for you to see but I’m afraid to because it was soley responsible for the entire three links that appeared at the bottom of the theme!

I don’t feel guilty because they really didn’t go to or help you find anything on the theme I’m using so maybe they are outdated or maybe they are just traffic builders?

Robert, is there any way I can let you see this nasty, garbled paragraph of text without it activating the same set of links to the authors/designers that put it there?

You would not believe your eyes…I have been reading and hand typing basic html code ( and avoiding hard code ) for years now ( just not php or blogs ) and I’m telling you it must be magic how this gobblety-gook could ever produce an action to cause links to appear anywhere, let alone remotley.

Sorry, for ranting on and on like this but maybe your subscribers should know how far out some of this stuff is and looks?

Please delete any of my posts that are redundant or confusing to your readers.

Sincerely,
Bernard

Are you sure you found the right piece of code which has the spam link in it?

If you like, you can post your URL here and I can take a look for you, to point you in the right direction.

I suspect that your theme cannot be changed from within WordPress. You may need to download your theme from your server using an FTP program, making the necessary edits and uploading the changed files back, onto your server.

Or, should I say there is no “save” or “update” buttons there.

I deleted a block of code and when I went away and came back it was back in it’s original form.

I hope I’m not being a pest here but you are the only source for getting to the bottom of this I have right now and any further help is greatly appreciated.

I’ve checked all the php pages in the theme folder but cannot find the three links that appear in the footer?

Appreciate the Help,
Bernard