JBCR Virtual Solutions Blog

So many of us are blog­ging now and so many of us don’t really know what is going on ‘under the hood’. Let me explain.

I have a Word­Press blog. As most peo­ple do I mod­er­ated com­ments because there was so much spam. Even if I went in every other day to clean these out there would still be hun­dreds next time I went in. I have finally had to turn the com­ment func­tion off. Sad state of affairs I must say.

Any­ways, yes­ter­day I went to my blog to check for some audio cod­ing to send along to a client as an exam­ple and what I found was very unset­tling. When I did View Source I saw lines and lines of linked spam (see pic­ture below).

In my search to find out where this was com­ing from I found that these had been writ­ten to the Head­ers and Foot­ers in Word­Press. Yep — true.

So the next step is to turn off the write func­tion on the header and footer fold­ers. We will see what hap­pens (I will report back).

So for you blog­gers out there, it may be very worth­while to check out what is under your hood.

Jan