Can’t remove widget

  • Resolved Eric

    (@winmkt)


    15 years ago

    Working on a blog for someone who downloaded and installed a free theme. This theme has a left and a right sidebar. In the right sidebar, there is a blogroll widget. When I go to Widgets in the administrators interface, blogroll/links is NOT one of the widgets in my right sidebar. I don’t really know PHP, but as a former C/C++ programmer, I know enough to scan through the PHP files for the theme and did not see anyplace where this blogroll widget may have been hard coded.

    Any suggestions of what I can do to get rid of it? Let me know if you need any additional info to help me diagnose and correct this problem.

    Thanks.

    Eric

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  • Shane G.

    (@shane-g-1)

    Hi,

    Generally, it is due to the plugins which creates this kind of problem….so you can either deactivate all plugins from database and reactivate plugin one-by-one to find culprit…or rename the plugins directory via FTP.

    – From wordpress admin area -> Appearance-> Widgets under Screen options, try the Enable Accessibility Mode.

    – Delete or refresh the browser cache.

    Thanks,

    Shane G.

    nothing that references <?php get_links in the sidebar.php?

    Thread Starter Eric

    (@winmkt)

    Thanks for getting back to me. I found the cause. It turns out footer.php was encrypted with the following php code:
    eval(gzinflate(str_rot13(base64_decode("ENCRYPTED_TEXT"))))

    I found a script to decode it at https://www.proxyutza.com/how-to-decode-ugly-evalgzinflatebase64_decode/ and in the decrypted footer.php file I found where the widgets were hard coded.

    Thanks again for your assistance.

    Eric

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