What’s this weird page in my Wordpress theme?
by Sapphire (January 21, 2008)
I installed a new theme on another site a few days ago. Today I noticed that one of the most visited pages was:
http://[mydomain].com/wp-content/themes/bobv2/dax.swf
which is some sort of x-shockwave-flash object that creates a big white page in the browser that says only “Please pass in your text.” (See the screenshot.)
What is this? I can’t see any Flash stuff on the theme, so what is this doing? I think whether it’s malignant or not, I want to get rid of it because it’s getting hit so much and it’s a non-page. I keep deleting it from the file manager in cpanel, but it keeps re-creating itself.
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January 21st, 2008 at 11:31 am
I think it is a component of the sIFR text replacement tool. If you have any .js scripts in your header that contain the letters sIFR (or sifr or SIFR etc.) then it’s called up every time someone visits a page that uses the script.
At least thats what I think it is…
January 21st, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Thanks, Chris. There is a .js script in the header that contains “sIRF”. Hmm.
January 22nd, 2008 at 7:44 am
no problem. its used to generate the aliased headers on your page. if you wanted to get rid of it, you should just be able to delete the .js scripts from your code and the text *should* display using normal fonts.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:54 am
Ah, okay, that explains a few things. Thanks! I’m completely self-taught on theming, so this is a nice piece of knowledge to have.
January 24th, 2008 at 6:51 am
This is really weird. But the comments do explain the problem.