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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:
- Only your home page will check my server at an interval of about 6 hours.
- 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
- 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 - I am using the WordPress inner function, fetch_rss() to retrieve and parse the RSS feed from my server.
- 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):
- $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. - $links=strip_tags($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. - $items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 3);
To ensure that maximum of 3 links are allowed.
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So basically all the themes on this site are ADWARE, bordering on SPYWARE (according to your “tracking” of those who install a theme… Shouldn’t they be released under a license that supports such a tacky and shameless method of monetisaition while informing the unsuspecting and trusting public BEFORE we install any of them?? Rather than finding out only AFTER spending weeks on a site, while trying to track down a way of removing completely IRRELEVANT ADS from our site!!
Seriously man, I’m one of many people who would gladly display a link to an AUTHOR’S site since they’ve did most of the hard graft in designing a theme I’m willing to use, which of course improves their sites link popularity enabling them to generate ad revenue from THEIR SITE, but when you FORCE people to display ads on their site – I can’t talk for anyone else but it makes me more determined than ever to decode that rubbish and not give any credit whatsoever!
Oh I’m sorry, I’ll rephrase the “FORCE people to display ads”. It’s more a case of “well you’ve spent a lot of time – and possibly money if you don’t have internet at home – working on a magnificent site and now you want to get rid of that rubbish at the bottom. Well tough because I say it stays, if you don’t like start from scratch with someone elses theme!”…
I did admire you for posting that decode post but this post makes it sound completely hypocritical!