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4:01 pm
November 3, 2010
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Sandy @ yesiamcheap
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Hi. Hope someone is technical enough to help me with this. I have a free WordPress theme installed and noticed that the theme has a few links on the very bottom to some sites that I would never link to. I checked the license for the free theme and it does not mention that I have to keep these links. I tried to remove them from the footer on the cPanel but it disables the blog and puts something up saying, "The links are harmless. Please reinstall the links" or something of that to get the site working again.
Does anyone know what I can do? I know that these stupid links are tanking my page ranking, but I love my theme. I'd of course leave the WordPress credits on the bottom and even link back to the theme provider. Any help is great. Thanks.
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4:25 pm
November 3, 2010
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everydaytips
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I use the theme F2, and there is a footer that can be modified in the 'F2 Settings' option, which is under 'appearance'. Not all themes have the settings specified under appearance though.
I also have a credit section within my footer.php that looks like this:
<div id="footer_credit">
Powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="Powered by WordPress.">WordPress</a>. Theme <a href="http://srinig.com/wordpress/themes/f2/">F2</a>.</div>
I would think if I removed this code, it would take away the additional info in the footer that has links. (My links are just about the theme, so no big deal.) However, who knows how your theme author hooked it all together.
Good luck!
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6:49 pm
November 3, 2010
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Sandy, Did you install your theme from the wordpress itself or from a third party website? From what you wrote -"The links are harmless. Please reinstall the links" – it looks like your credits are encrypted. If you did download from you wordpress.org then can you look for "<div id="footer2">" and remove the entire div section? if you cannot find that div section, look if you can find a combination of eval and footer somewhere in your theme files, either in footer.php or functions.php (or any variations of that files, it might be named a little different in your theme).
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6:56 pm
November 3, 2010
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Post edited 7:10 pm – November 3, 2010 by Suba @ Wealth Informatics
Your theme is "camellia"? I think it is (if not ignore this). Open your footer.php, this is how it will look like (if it is Camellia)
<div class="span-24">
<div id="footer">Copyright © <a href="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>"><strong><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></strong></a> – <?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
<?php // This theme is released free for use under creative commons licence. http://creativecommons.org/lic…..es/by/3.0/
// All links in the footer should remain intact.
// These links are all family friendly and will not hurt your site in any way.
// Warning! Your site may stop working if these links are edited or deleted ?>
<div id="footer2">Powered by <a href="http://wordpress.org/"><strong>WordPress</strong></a> | Best <a href="http://www.bestincellphones.com/verizon-wireless-upgrade-deals-contract-extension.asp">Verizon phone upgrade</a> deals | Thanks to <a href="http://www.icellphonedeals.com">iCellPhoneDeals.com</a>, <a href="http://mmohut.com/social-games">Facebook Games</a> and <a href="http://thedietsolutionprogramscam.com">The Diet Solution Program Scam</a></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<?php
wp_footer();
echo get_theme_option("footer") . "n";
?>
</body>
</html>
Remove the highlighted-in-red section, save your footer.php. I don't know if this is what you tried already and removing this section messes up your theme? If that is what you did, may be the file has the code in more than one place….
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7:07 pm
November 3, 2010
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Sandy @ yesiamcheap
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Post edited 7:09 pm – November 3, 2010 by sandy@yesiamcheap
I'm using Camellia 1.0 by NewWpThemes.com. I tried removing the <div> section in the footer but I still get that crap error. So I removed that footer section and the encrytion in the header that I found in the headers and got the same "error". So I took your advice and checked the functions.php file and there's some encrytion there as well. Let you know how that turns out. I see that you're online SUBA. Wish we could chat!
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7:17 pm
November 3, 2010
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Sandy, I am online. Don't know how to chat here. Ping me in gtalk wealth.informatics if you have a gmail id.
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7:22 pm
November 3, 2010
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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If you can't chat, can you try this?
1) Find this line in your index.php file
<?php get_footer(); ?>
2) Add this line just above the <?php get_foorer();?>
<!–Footer code starts here–>
3) Add this line below
<!–Footer code ends here–>
4) It should look like this
<!–Footer code starts here–>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
<!–Footer code ends here–>
5) Update. Go to your page and view the source (I can do this if you let em know when you update aswell). It should show
<!–Footer code starts here–>
//lots of blah blah code
<!–Footer code ends here–>
6) copy and paste the actual code from the footer start to the footer end. Replace the
<!–Footer code starts here–>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
<!–Footer code ends here–>
with
<!–Footer code starts here–>
//lots of blah blah code
<!–Footer code ends here–>
After removing the offending code lines. See if that works
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7:32 pm
November 3, 2010
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Sandy @ yesiamcheap
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I made a gmail ID just to chat with you! I tried to invite you. If you're still on my email is yesiamcheap @gmail. Okay, so I removed the encrytion everywhere but managed to kill the sidebar. Big whoops! I'm trying to muddle through it, so hopefully I'll get it all back up. Thanks for your help. Couldn't have done it without you.
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11:31 am
November 4, 2010
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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You should be able to set your file permissions to edit within the Wordpress editor or use an FTP client to edit the file on your desktop. I would not want to edit within CPanel unless it was a small tweak.
Also, make sure to backup the files before you edit in case you break something.
But when I go to your site, it looks fixed… Still need help?
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8:47 pm
November 4, 2010
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Sandy @ yesiamcheap
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SUBA walked me through the process last night to clear out the links. It was pretty involved since some encoding was on three different files. The problem that I am having now is that about 10 bullets are appearing at the bottom of each new post. I don't know where to begin trying to fix it, but if you click on my latest post here you will see them. If anyone is technical in nature, I'd pass a virtual glass of wine to you.
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9:58 pm
November 4, 2010
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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Sandy, From the source code of that page it looks like they the social bookmarks. Did you install them recently? Do you use any plugin to do this?
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10:00 pm
November 4, 2010
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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May be you use sexy bookmarks? Can you disable it and see if that goes away and then delete/reinstall the plugin fresh?
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12:48 pm
November 5, 2010
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Sandy @ yesiamcheap
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I did use Sexy Bookmarks. Deactivating it was the trick. Now I have to find a similiar one that will work with my (now) modified theme. Thanks a million everyone. Couldn't have done it without you. Actually, I wouldn't have known where to begin.
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1:39 pm
November 5, 2010
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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You could try sociable or sharethis or digg digg?
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