WordPress Remove Hidden Spam Links from Plugins Themes
Recently while regular source code checkup of the files from website, it came to my attention that there are so many Spammy Hidden Links pointing to some sites. Finding the source of these links is very difficult so I started deactivating plugins one by one.
There were so many spam links on website pointing to some “care2.com” website.
So started debugging that, by deactivating all installed plugins one by one.
In this I found out that the problem I was facing was because of “WordPress Database Backup” plugin.
Just deactivated this plugin and “NO SPAM LINKS”.
But I needed this plugin….
So started googling and found that JQuery pointing to wpstats website generates these spam hidden links with div display:none property.
So to continue using this plugin, go to following path
/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-database-backup-plugin/wpbackup.php
and search for wpstats, you will find following
http://www.wpstats.org/jquery-1.6.3.min.js
and replace it with following URL
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js
Save file and again activate this plugin.
And you will be able to use plugin and with no spam hidden links.
Nice writeup
however, its good as minimum plug ins you use, as they hinder the performance of your website. Database backups can be easily taken from the CPanel, you can directly download the SQL file.
Yes its a good idea.
May be even it can be automated with some cron job also.
Thanks a lot guyz!!!
Awesome man. Had this bug in my theme on my site. It helped lower the load time 😀
U pointed right.Is there any tool that find totol out going links from your site.It will help to understand and clear unnecessary links from site.
Wow, this is cool. Finding so many of them is just so time consuming as some plugin developers fill them with unnecessary codes. Thanks for this lovely post.