marthus

I guess letting off some steam above helped. I found how to remove it as it embedded itself into the theme I installed (it did not come with the theme). I thought to look in the footer code. I found it there and deleted the Addthis code and it’s gone from my website – yeah! I will never use Addthis again.

This is what I removed from my footer:

<!– AddThis Smart Layers BEGIN –>
<!– Go to https://www.addthis.com/get/smart-layers to customize –>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=ra-52b2e6004a93ec29″></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>
addthis.layers({
‘theme’ : ‘transparent’,
‘share’ : {
‘position’ : ‘left’,
‘numPreferredServices’ : 5
},
‘whatsnext’ : {},
‘recommended’ : {}
});
</script>
<!– AddThis Smart Layers END –>

Thanks for the support!

I can’t remove Addthis!! It is a virus! I have an eCommerce site and it installed competitor pop-ups on my product pages. When a client views one of my products a row of competitors products show (with a caption – you may like these) and clicking on them takes them off my website to the competitor. I never agreed to any of this – nor would I ever.

I sent five messages requesting help to Addthis (including emails to corporate) and they will not respond telling me how to remove it. I added it as a plugin and now the plugin does not show to remove it yet it persists on every post and page and has embedded itself into the php code. I don’t know enough to remove it as I try and it breaks the page or post. WordPress should not allow such a plugin!

I scoured the internet and most every remedy Addthis gives does not work and I find their answers very vague. I also see others with the dame issue of removal. They clearly do not want it removed once it is installed.

Can anyone help?