Strange numbers – 11111 – in header; can't get rid of 'em

  • Howdy,

    I have a weird issue. In the header of my site, there are strange numbers namely “11111”.

    Check it out: https://www.hankewitz.com

    As you can see, it’s just there right before the Yoast SEO plugin code. But I’ve tried deactivating all plugins, including Yoast, and it still remains there.

    I’ve also gone through all my theme files, including functions.php (both theme and WP itself) and I can’t find the thing that creates those numbers there.

    Nor has excessive googling helped me.

    I’m running version 4.3-alpha-32711 – but I don’t remember whether those numbers appeared before I upgraded to 4.3 alpha, or were they there before.

    Any ideas?

    Thank you!

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  • David_G

    (@questas_admin)

    I see that, have you tried switching themes to 2015 and does it go away? You might want to try reinstalling a fresh copy of the theme.

    Thread Starter Sten

    (@sten007)

    Actually you might be right – it does seem to be a theme issue. When I choose the live preview of any other theme, it’s not there – when I’m in Skeleton live preview, it’s there.

    I don’t want to reinstall a fresh copy of the theme because I have modified it considerably (but I didn’t eff it up, the 11111 wasn’t there after I last edited the theme).

    The thing is, I have gone through every single file in this theme, and none of them contain the 11111. So how can the theme display it if it’s not there?

    David_G

    (@questas_admin)

    which files did you edit? You should copy your edits and place them in a child theme. I will assume you edited the style.css file and possibly the functions.php files, am I correct?

    Creating a child theme preserves your customizations when you update the theme files.

    Thread Starter Sten

    (@sten007)

    I have no idea which files I edited, it was a long time ago. Not functions.php, but probably header and footer and maybe style.css, maybe some others as well. Probably not significant modifications, but still.

    David_G

    (@questas_admin)

    make a backup copy of your files, download the theme to your computer and compare, then you can save your edits. I suggest downloading the same version you are using on your site. Put your customizations in a child theme and you will never lose them.

    The best way to make changes like this to a theme is to use a child theme, so your tweaks won’t be overwritten when updating the theme. Here are some guides in case you haven’t made one before:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes
    https://op111.net/53/

    David_G

    (@questas_admin)

    You actually can place the header and footer files in your child theme as a whole, so essentially you only need to compare the style.css files between yours and a unaltered version. Then place your customizations in the child’s style.css file. Setting up a child theme is pretty easy actually.

    Thread Starter Sten

    (@sten007)

    All right, thank you very much. I’ll figure it out ??

    It appeared to be a remnant from when I was testing the theme.

    looks like some outputs of testing some logic boolean conditions – check any function files of your theme, any functions do do with add_action( 'wp_head', '.......' )

    I fixed this problem. All I did was go to the functions.php file in my parent Skeleton theme, and removed ‘echo’ from the line apply_filters (‘child_add_stylesheets’,$stylesheets);.

    Thread Starter Sten

    (@sten007)

    Oh THANK YOU, david221! This, indeed, worked!

    Thank you so much!

    I just want to thank you for posting this solution. I was having the exact same problem. I ran through every file looking for the rogue 11111 but alas, I could not find it. Just before throwing in the towel, I decided to search for the 11111 problem and found the forum solution. Thank you, thank you, thank you! All is well now!

    Hi
    I am having a strange number showing on my posts, since I installed yoast SEO,

    I deactivated new plugins but number still showing

    You can see it in different places on https://www.riyadhkey.com

    please help as I dont know where to look, nor know how to start a new threa

    regards

    Hani

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    hdraye: Please start a new thread in the forum as you have a different problem. Thanks.

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