Random Link Appeared Below My Footer

  • I suddenly got this random and kinda weird link cause i don’t remember posting it anywhere on the site (please take a look at the screenshot i provided). The problem is, i want the link gone but i can’t find where its located on the wordpress file.

    The link is not even connected to the footer, so i can’t just simply hide the footer to make it disappear. Any idea how to locate this link and make it disappear from my site completely?

    Thank you in advance

    Screenshots :
    Link location (front-end) : https://paste.pics/Q76CI

    Inspect element view : https://paste.pics/Q76D2

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  • There’s something on your site that’s injecting that text (the “link”) into your footer. That could be something malicious, but it’s more likely to be a plugin or your theme.

    Have you recently added or updated anything with a Whatsapp URL like this? If so, find that and you’ll find where to remove it.

    Apart from that you can try the standard de-bugging method of de-activating all plugins and switching to a default (Twenty-*) theme, and then re-activate everything one-by-one until you find out which one is the cause of this.

    Thread Starter kannabanna

    (@kannabanna)

    Hi, thank you very much for answering my problem and so sorry it took too long for me to reply.

    Basically after some time and a lot of troubleshooting i found out that there’s conflict between my site and Google Tag Manager’s script which write as follows : 

    <!-- Google Tag Manager -->
<script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':
new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src=

    If i remove the script from header section or deactivate the GTM4WP plugin, the random Whatsapp script on my site will disappear. But unfortunately, my team really need the GTM’s script. Is there any way to solve this problem of mine?

    Thank you in advance

    I’d guess that it’s a JavaScript issue as that’s mainly what GTM Works with. With that in mind I’d look at what is providing the WhatsApp link, and investigate there and how/if that can be changed.

    Thread Starter kannabanna

    (@kannabanna)

    There’s a button on my About Us page with that link connected. But it’s a button built with wpbakery page builder, and even if i change the button link. The “Whatsapp script” still won’t disappear from my site

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