About the Footer Script

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The script is encrypted. However, I show you what is inside the script so you can confirm that it is safe to use.

Now I’ll explain the structure of the script:

1. Only your home page will check my server at an interval of about 6 hours.
2. If time out (eg. our server is down), the checking will be extended after 6 hours. This means that the script will check my server maximum 4 times/day
3. The script will send the 5 items below to my server and save them in my database.
   - blog home url
   - blog title
   - theme id
   - theme version
   - theme name
4. I am using the Wordpress inner function, fetch_rss() to retrieve and parse the RSS feed from my server.
5. The script will calculate the number of text links being displayed and limit the number to maximum of 4 only.

Script explanation (to ensure the script is safe):

1. $post_variables = array(… );
   Data passes to my server, you can see that it sends only blog url, title, the theme ID, ver and name. No other information are passed.
2. $links=strip_tags($links,”<a>”);
   This is double confirm to make sure that only text and links are allowed. Other tags like <p><script><iframe> will be removed.
3. $items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 3);
   To ensure that maximum of 3 links are allowed.