This is a blogging community FYI.
A couple of days ago I started experiencing unexplainable popups on this blog. I’m not a fan of popups and I surely don’t want somebody else seeing them in relation to my blog. At first I thought it was an issue with Blogger itself. Simply because it came right out of the blue. I haven’t added anything in a while.
While Blogger support was looking in to the problem - so was I. Anytime you add javascript from another website to your blog or website you are adding third party functionality. In other words - somebody else has control of the feed to that particular piece of code. With that knowledge, I started removing all third party function to this blog.
The guilty code was coming from rankwidget.com. I had two widgets on here displaying Technorati ranking. You will notice those are gone now. As soon as I removed the rankwidget code the popups went away. Just to verify I put the site all back together with no popups and then added the suspected code. The popups came back.
So if you are having popup problems on your site and you use rankwidget I would suggest checking there first.
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I’m glad I deemed today Almost… Wordless Wednesday. This isn’t exactly what I had in mind but I thought this was important.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
This is a good heads up. I try to be pretty careful about what widgets I post, but you never know when one can go rogue on you. Thanks for the update.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Denny,
I am not computer savvy as you, but just letting you know that I haven’t had any pop-ups appear on your site (knock on wood).
Matthew
March 13th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
I think it actually started when I was here writing a post and trying to publish. I caught it before too many people had to see them. Not that I get a lot of traffic but I really don’t want one visitor to have to deal with them. They took over the whole page.
March 14th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Denny - Thanks for your post…Jody at Hunter’s Wife and Rex at Deer Camp Blog have been trying to help me get the popups off of my site for the last 3 days…it has been horrible..but have it taken care of now. It was the rankwidget. Thanks for posting this - Jody saw it and told me about it. Whew!
March 14th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I’m glad it helped - I was pretty frustrated for awhile. I should have written this post sooner but better late than never.