Unwanted characters in post URL

Did those characters always show up at the end of the url? If not, did you recently add a new plugin?

I would try deactivating all plugins to see if the characters go away.

Thanks, yeah I recently added a bunch of new plugins. I deactivated them and deleted them but the characters are still there

When I disable javascript in my browser settings, the hash and random characters go away in the URL. However, when I re-enable it they come back.

Any ideas what they could be?
I saw on older posts in the forums that the problem was coming from the AddThis plugin. I do not have this plugin so I’m really not sure what’s going on here

@thefitcpa

Hi there,

Those characters appended to your URL are from AddThis.

Although you do not have our plugin installed, you do have our tools hardcoded on your site:
https://www.screencast.com/t/WLUkY4Sdguy

These characters appended to your URL were designed so you can track click backs to your site from social shares. You can learn more about it here:
https://www.addthis.com/academy/addthis-click-tracking/

To turn this off, all you will have to do is change this code: <script type=”text/javascript”>var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true};</script>

And set the data_track_addressbar variable to false like this: <script type=”text/javascript”>var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:false};</script>

I hope that helps! If you have any questions, feel free to email [email protected].

Thanks,
Leland
Technical Support Engineer | AddThis

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Leland.

@addthisleland

This worked and it is now fixed! Thanks so much for your reply and for your help!

You’re welcome @thefitcpa!

Glad to help ??

Thanks,
Leland
Technical Support Engineer | AddThis