Can anybody guide me on encrypting footer links ? what tool/software? Also, is it possible to decrypt ?
Encrypting means? like the ones used while distributing free themes (cant be edited easily by editing footer.php)?
They can be coded using php. Basic encryption can be done as Encode it using http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp and use this in footer.php More specific encryption can be done by more advanced encoding PS: This isnt encryption, its http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obfuscated_code
I don't really see what the point of doing that is. Anyone who wants to remove those links will probably be web savvy and use FF to "view source", copy and pate the code into the footer.php, then remove the links. Those that don't care or know how won't remove them.
well i dont really know as how to encrypt it, but you can see how to decrypt a wordpress footer that is encrypted with the messy, un-understandable code.. How to decrypt an encrypted wordpress footer easily Hope it helps cheers
I have done several tests on wordpress footer links encryption after getting successful written a tutorial that can guide anyone to decode worpdress footer links
hey.. sometimes i see footer.php in wordpress theme used multi encryption methode.. just like as (str_rot13(md5(base_64(aldyfuefhauefhadjhajk83473trsdhgfdshgfahsdgfsdfgsdf)))); i wonder... how i can make this encryption methode??
Most generally speaking I have always been able to decrypt any footer link I have ever seen in a theme. Its super easy. You just load up your page with everything intact, and then view the html source code. Then view the elemets that load right above the footer section. Say the sidebar. Then open up the sidebar.php file. Look at the code where it ends and compare it with the html code of the whole site you just viewed. Copy anything that comes after the sidebar code. Paste that in place of the encrypted code in the footer.php. Presto, you have a decoded theme. Encoding the footer inhernatly doesn't really do anything, as you could just replace it with standard wordpress footer code and it would likely work. What most people do is add some sort of "hook" via css or some other method that calls an element that is not typically in the footer. An element that makes the theme work, but doesn't visually change anything on the site. Something that without it the theme breaks. It can take a little playing around, but generally I can break any themes footer encryption in 5 mins or less. Grant it the average user may not know this, but its pretty basic if you understand html/php code and how themes work. Anyway, the point there is if you are going to try and encrypt something you need to know how people decrypt current methods so that you can try and encrypt in such a way where that wouldn't work. Bottom line is though unless you make it call some sort of other file that does something server side and authenticates before it kicks out the code, then it can be decrypted by just copy and pasting html code.