For those who just log in to their WordPress Dashboard to do their usual stuff but do not take any note of the latest WordPress news around, better take note of this piece of news. Weblog Tools Collection warned about a certain site known as BlogsTheme.com offering premium Wordpress Themes that contains lots of malicious codes in the theme’s footer. As quoted:
The “WordPress” link in the footer of every theme distributed by that site links back to blogstheme.com and the downloads are not pristine as intended by the designers of the themes. The footers are also tainted with sponsored links that the original authors did not put there.
In total, I counted nearly 170 themes up for download and some nice ones have been downloaded more than 100 times according to their figures. What an easy way to make some fast bucks without too much effort. Just download those free themes, add bunches of paid links at the footer and put them up for download again. Pity those guys who spent days and weeks designing those themes.
Fairly newbie, the cord is cut but still learning to crawl. I wondered what that garbage was on the bottom of so many blogs that I get alerts for under google!