You’ve found the perfect free theme for your latest WordPress blogging project… But wait! Its got loads of spammy links in the footer, and they seem to be encrypted by some devious technical genius – what should you do? Don’t delete that theme too soon… there is an easy solution.
As many of you will know, keeping those links in the footer of a WP blog can cause unpleasant issues, such as draining your hard-won link juice away from your site.
I was surprised to discover today that removing the carefully encrypted footer links is the work of about 2 minutes. I’ll defer to the greater knowlege of the guys at the “Get Netted” blog, who created a brill tutorial with screenshots and easy to understand instructions.
Thanks to them, my brand new Solar powered products blog is looking just fab. Cheers guys!
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
i have been a victim of those stupid links. thnx for the post. it will help others to avoid it.
January 14th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
What about the wordpress link it self? I’ve bought a theme and the only link I’ve got in my footer is the WP’s one, but I’m not sure if I have to keep it?!
April 21st, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Gosh, Darn and blast i
Just as I get an idea for a jolly good site about solar power, I read you’ve already done one!
Thanks for an invaluable post about removing encrypted links.
Back to the drawing board for me
May 19th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Kirsty this link is awesome managed to change those nasty links on the bottom of a cool theme
May 29th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I never remove footer links from my sites. Its a very bad habit. Actually we get free wordpress themes because of the footer credit links to the authors. If all the people around world started to remove the links, theme authors would stop creating free themes, then we’d spend about 100$ for a wordpress theme, also the themes are licensed so its illegal to remove the footer links. If a theme author complaints to the hosting provider, it’ll result the suspension of the hosting.
October 1st, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Surely the developers that work long and hard on these themes at least deserve attribution for their work?