If you download and install many WordPress themes you will sometimes find themes that have encrypted lines or variables in the footer part of the theme, in the functions.php file or other included theme files. I do not trust these lines of code and would not use a theme without knowing what code is being […]

Lately I’ve been downloading and reading myself up on WordPress themes and stumbled upon something curious. Many themes had encrypted code/lines starting with the following code Example 1 eval(base64_decode(‘abcdefgh….’) and other variations like Example 2 eval(gzinflate(str_rot13(base64_decode(‘abcdefgh…’) This made me curious about why would someone make such an effort to obfuscate their code. Personally I would […]