Hello, I have a question: How do I encrypt my footer links? I want to release a couple of free themes but I want to make sure the links are kept. Help appreciated, can tip!
I was about to post a link to another forum, but searching for encrypting footer links here at DP actually yielded some very good results. Check this thread out. I hope that helps you out. Good luck!
Make sure you include some of the html as well like the closing divs. Else folks will just delete the encrypted code to get rid of it. If you include the html, they have to leave it in there.
This is never a secure method. Anyone can use base64_decode to remove the links. Bytecode would be the right solution if you are really looking to secure your links.
He's right. base64 codes isn't the way to go if you really want to encrypt links in your wordpress theme. I always decrypt them really easy with that base 64 encoding.
There are websites that can encrypt your footer using base_64 in php. Here is the links that can help you. http://ostermiller.org/calc/encode.html
Maybe posting a link to a tutorial on the use of bytecode would be helpful. Five minutes with google doesn't pull up anything for me.
Bytecode is nothing but machine code and the regular PHP sytnax is compiled to machine code which is one way process and can not be easily reversed. There are many who offer this like ionCube or ZendGuard or SourceGuardian or Byterun or you can prepare one yourself but I would suggest you to use ionCube because it has loaders easily available and mostly installed with all web hosts. Your next best alternative would be Zend Guard (expensive though). ionCube offers an online encoder and you can get started as low as $5.
You are a bunch of meanies If people really want to, let them change the footer. I find only about ~1 in 10 of my themes end up with their footer links removed.