Yesterday as I was looking for plugins for my blog I found something interesting. It is called TAC or Theme Authenticity Checker.This is a plugin to check the authenticity of the theme for WordPress, which we use. But why do we need such authentication?Well, it’s simple.

You know there are thousands of WordPress themes in the Internet that you can get for your WordPress installation. Most people are looking for themes that are beautiful, functional and mostly free. But sometimes these themes could contain undesirable scripts, links and other code placed  without your knowledge in the theme you are using. The existence of such scripts can be detected with TAC plugin.

What this plugin does is to scan the source files of every installed theme for signs of malicious code.If such code is found, TAC will show you which file in the theme contains the code and it will also show the path to the  file.

The next question is what to do if you find malicious code.Well, just because the code is there doesn’t mean it’s placed there by the theme author.This is because almost any theme could be downloaded from someone who could change its code  and then being provided for downloading by 3rd party websites. In such cases it’s recommended to contact the theme author with the code that the plugin finds, as well as the site where you downloaded the theme.

Anyway, I think it’s better you should always download themes from the WordPress site and not from 3rd party sites.

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