Comments on: Removing Malware from my own Site

By: Koos van den Hout

Koos van den Hout — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:09:26 +0000

I don’t see the point in using software which is designed to infect your site with malware and damages your sites’ reputation. A link ‘theme X by Y’ should be fine, but your story makes such a theme sound like a danger.

By: Brian Hanifin

Brian Hanifin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:58:37 +0000

FYI, I just went to the site in Chrome and did not get the error.

BTW, for a site reviewing mobile games, I would recommend finding a new theme that resizes itself for smaller screens. You don’t need a plugin anymore. Search for “responsive” themes.

As a matter of fact the WordPress Twenty Twelve default theme is responsive. When you preview a responsive theme, grab the right side of your browser and shrink it to the left. You will see the content start rearranging itself as your viewing area gets thinner and thinner until the content from the right hand column repositions itself under the primary page content. In some themes the main navigation shrinks collapses. Images and text even resize automatically in a responsive theme.

I just got done helping out a friend redo his Pizza Restaurant website with a responsive WordPress them so customers could view the menu on their smartphones.

If you have any questions about this, let me know. Your Invading Spaces book gave me the courage to pick up my first (broken) arcade machine a few years back. :)

By: Mom

Mom — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:26:11 +0000

I almost understood all of that. I’m learning. :)

By: Earl Green

Earl Green — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:20:51 +0000

That’s the pain-in-the-butt thing with near-ubiquity, whether you’re talking WordPress or Windows: someone’s going to decide it’s the easiest way to hose the maximum number of people. I’ve had to cleanse crap out of my own site before, and it’s often some callout to base64 in the footer code; anytime I look at a theme I’m thinking of deploying somewhere, I check it over thoroughly to make sure the theme isn’t pre-infected from the word go.