What are the side effects of Nulled WordPress themes?

Hasa1015 Level 1

July 29, 2016, 5:48 am

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What are the side effects of Nulled WordPress themes?

I recently installed a nulled theme on one of my sites, and after a while I noticed a link embedded in the actual background of my site, which started to make me regret cheaping out. I ended up hiring a freelancer to edit the theme code and remove it and after all of that it worked out cheaper for me to hire him than to buy the theme.

Do you guys always buy your themes, and if not how do you check there is no virus installed? Personally I usually buy them, but after this test I am not sure if it is worthwhile, the only benefit really is having theme updates, however as this them was over a year old I didn't think there would be many crucial updates.

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anwebservices

With nulled themes you must be very careful. I have seen it in the past that people nulled them and offer for free download, but also some people leave open backdors to hack your website in the future if they see your website interesting and powerful. I would NOT recommend using nulled themes. If one can't afford to buy some good quality premium theme, there is also many very good free themes to use. In other hand, choose some good free theme to start up, then latter, when you can afford just switch to premium theme. It's easy couple clicks to change theme any time.

8 years ago

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Lynne

Ok so everyone is having a great conversation about Nulled Wordpress Themes but nobody has explained what a nulled Wordpress theme is?

I had someone I know offer me a whole pack of "free" premium wordpress themes that someone had given him access to. I just found this like way strange so I said no thanks. I don't think receiving free packages of things doing the rounds of something that should have a cost is going to do me any good.

8 years ago

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Cristian

Nulled as in pirated? I never heard this term before, but I guess you are talking about copied and pirated wordpress themes right?
Well isn't it kind of illegal? Can the creator of the theme find you and take legal action? Probably not but you still have a theme with a lot of garbage code and potential viruses and you can get hacked later on.

I will never invest time and money on such a projects. Also I won't go for such called premium themes anymore, I've paid 60 bucks for such a theme but had a ton of bugs and non-useful code. I'm seriously thinking on developing my on theme, I also learn coding in the process.

8 years ago

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overcast

Nulled themes are extremely dangerous. They have lot of callbacks into them. And those callbacks can make the theme open for the attacks. And it can lead to more or less damage to your wordpress installation. And I suggest you to avoid this as much as you can. Make sure to go for only genuine themes. And make sure to use the themes in the official places. That way you won't be affecting your wordpress backend either. So that is a good security practice.

7 years ago

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What are the side effects of Nulled WordPress themes?

What are the side effects of Nulled WordPress themes?

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