Mysterious Facebook Like Bar Appeared – HELP!

  • Hi guys,

    Out of the blue, I suddenly have a Facebook Like “BAR” that is at the top of my page.
    You can see if you visit any page on my site: https://sffood.net

    Looking at the code behind it, I have no idea what plugin is doing this.

    STRANGER still is that I have no idea what page it’s referring to as it shows “you and 16 people like this”. I don’t have a page w/ 17 likes….and the only page I’ve attached to this particular website would be 1400+ likes. I haven’t tried attaching any other of my FB pages to this site.

    There’s one plugin that offers something to this effect if you put in an app ID. I had an app ID in there (which should, at worst, lead to MY page) and have since removed it — but the bar remains. The code behind that area doesn’t mention this app at all.

    Can someone offer any guidance as to what on earth is going on? Can I at least find what/who it is that I’m liking? I tried searching for a Facebook bar suddenly appearing but unbelievably, I think I’m the only one in the world that encountered this. All the posts are about people wanting a like bar!

    -Grace

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  • Hey Grace,

    I looked at the code including css stylesheets of your website. What I found was the bar is identifying itself as “sa_app_facebookbar”.

    Hope this help!

    -Brad

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    I would try deactivating all your plugins to explore whether any could be responsible. If none are, keep them all deactivated and switch to the default Twenty Fourteen/ Thirteen theme and see if the issue is with your theme.

    Thread Starter @thegracekeh

    (@sffood)

    Hi Brad and Andrew:

    Afraid I’ve tried all that. I’m giving up and doing a new install.
    My hosting company worked on it overnight and they can’t figure out what it leads to or where the likes go, or how it got there. They only know it’s not attached to a plug-in, and that it doesn’t lead anywhere specific…which I knew before I contacted them. Gave me their usual “hire a developer who could figure it out” and “scan your system for malware” — which I’ve done four times now.

    Andrew, it appears on Twenty Fourteen as well with all of the plugins removed from the actual folder — I didn’t try Twenty Thirteen. The strangest thing.

    Even stranger that I can’t find a single other person that has complained about this on Google, haha! That is weirdest of all!

    Anyway, thank you for taking a peek at it!

    -Grace.

    Check the theme template files, too.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    The actual source of that (and the meaning of “sa”) is something called “siteapps”.

    There’s a bit of javascript code in your header that looks like this:

    <script type="text/javascript">$SA = {s:198946, asynch: 1, useBlacklistUrl: 1};(function() {   var sa = document.createElement("script");   sa.type = "text/javascript";   sa.async = true;   sa.src = ("https:" == document.location.protocol ? "https://" + $SA.s + ".sa" : "https://" + $SA.s + ".a") + ".siteapps.com/" + $SA.s + ".js";   var t = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];   t.parentNode.insertBefore(sa, t);})();</script>

    That is including javascript code from this URL:
    https://198946.a.siteapps.com/198946.js

    And that is what is inserting that like bar.

    So, search for “siteapps” in all your code.

    Thread Starter @thegracekeh

    (@sffood)

    Samuel – came back to say thank you!
    Your post got me to SiteApps, which was part of the Siteground package I have. (A little sad that they didn’t even recognize what it was, now to think of it!)

    Guess it loaded a bar that wasn’t set up — so it really was leading nowhere, haha. I kept it — and just directed it to the right page.

    Thank you so much — this stumped everyone and you solved it! ??
    Thanks to everyone else for your help, too. Much appreciated!

    -Grace.

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