You Just Never Know What Is Going On Under The Hood

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