Hide the WordPress Stats Smiley Face

Posted on Nov 15, 2012

You’re going along, checking out your website and you see it. A smiley face hiding in your footer.  You panic. Have you been hacked? You open your source code and look at footer.php. There’s no smiley.  You delete and resave the PHP code and check your site. The smiley is gone. You’re not sure what happened and you let it go. The next day you look at your website and the phantom smiley is back.  You search and...