Error — get_link.php not found

  • Hi,

    On a few of my blogs that used to work fine, an error started popping up at the bottom:

    Not Found

    The requested URL /plugin/api/get_link.php was not found on this server.

    It looks like it is in the footer where it usually says ‘proudly powered by WordPress.’

    I googled this error message and I can see that lots of people’s blogs have this same error.

    I’m using 2.9.2.

    Any ideas what is causing this or how to fix it?

    Thanks, Susie

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  • My first thoughts would be this is related to a plugin, perhaps one that is using a deprecated function call. I searched the error message and looked at several sites where this message is occurring. There is a great deal of malformed code in the footer of these sites.

    I would suggest deactivated your plugins either all at once then reactivating one at a time to find the plugin that may be causing this issue; or, check after deactivating each plugin until the error message goes away.

    If you are able to pinpoint which plugin(s) is causing this issue I am certain the author would appreciate knowing about it.

    PS: You might consider upgrading to the most current version of WordPress as well, as of this writing it is version 3.0.1.

    Thread Starter susb8383

    (@susb8383)

    Hi,

    Nope, that didn’t do it. I deactivated all my plugins and I see get the error.

    Did you try a “hard-refresh” to force you browser to reload a fresh version of the page? There could be something cached causing issues … although deactivating ALL of your plugins should have removed the error message with a normal or soft-refresh of the page.

    Thread Starter susb8383

    (@susb8383)

    Well I upgraded to WP 3.0.1 and that still didn’t fix it. Same error.

    This is the full error:
    Not Found

    The requested URL /plugin/api/get_link.php was not found on this server.
    A Thing or Two is proudly powered by
    Not Found

    The requested URL /plugin/api/get_link.php was not found on this server.
    “>WordPress 2.1
    Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS). 16 queries. 1.039 seconds.

    It’s interesting that part of the error says WordPress 2.1 when that isn’t my version. Is that a clue?

    Thread Starter susb8383

    (@susb8383)

    Just tried clearing my browser cache. No change.

    Thread Starter susb8383

    (@susb8383)

    Ah! I think the problem is in the theme itself and is related to my site being hacked. I found this in the footer.php:
    get_wp_results('f')

    which seems to be related to a hack.

    So my guess is that the hacked footer code had been doing something before but now it show the error.

    If you were “hacked” … well, anything is possible related to it. As to the reference to WordPress version 2.1, that is when the get_link() function was deprecated.

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