Where do the javascript onlick tracking tags all over my sidebar come from ?

  • Hi,

    I’ve had this blog running for a year and a half and have just moved it to a new server last week, Media Temple. Now I don’t know when this problem started since I just noticed today, but I’ve just checked my blog in Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari and my sidebar is all broken. I’d not noticed before because I use Opera where everything is fine, so I don’t know how long this has been going on.

    The links in the sidebar are all pushed down randomly and not where they should be. Now I just checked the source code of the page and I noticed I have these javascript onclick tracker tags embedded around all my blogroll links, that I have no idea where they came from.

    It looks like this:

    <a href="https://example.wordpress.com/" target="" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-blogroll','https://example.wordpress.com/']);">Example</a></li>

    I checked the sidebar.php template and everything looks fine there.

    What is causing these javascript tags to be all over my template code all of a sudden ? Could a plugin be doing that ? The only new plugin I added since moving the blog is the OIO Publisher ad plugin, but I don’t think it’s responsible since I’m using this plugin on 5 other WP installs and I have no such issue there.

    I would greatly appreciate any insight !

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  • Best thing to do, is the standard troubleshoot

    deactivate all plugins-test
    switch to twentyten theme-test

    that can at least narrow the problem

    Thread Starter bergamasque

    (@bergamasque)

    I’m thinking that might be the Google Analytics plugin, it has a “Track outbound clicks & downloads:” checkbox in its settings. But I unchecked it, deactivated the plugin, and the sidebar still shows all weird.

    Thread Starter bergamasque

    (@bergamasque)

    I tried other themes, the links act normally there. But if it’s not the GA plugin, but the theme I’m using, I see nothing in the templates that should be adding these tracking tags. I’ve been using that theme ever since the blog’s creation. I’ve changed nothing to it that would do this to the blogroll links.

    Thread Starter bergamasque

    (@bergamasque)

    Ah, actually, I think deactivating the Google Analytics plugin fixed it. I just needed to clear the cache in all these browsers before I could see the changes. Yay!

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