How Will Google View a Base64 String in a Wordpress Theme

[jk3210]

On one Wordpress site I just built, I'm using a high-end theme from a reputable company, and after upgrading it I notice that the theme now sticks a "decoder" Base64 string at the bottom of each page right above the /body tag, with a "display:none" css.

This string is {{{4K}}} long. It's huge.

I've run the string through a Base64 decoder and it basically outputs an html of all the settings from the theme's control panel so their tech support can easily read it.

However, it also contains a couple of non-href links to their site. The links are not live or clickable, just a "http*//www.their-site.com"

When I check Google's text-only cache of these pages, the entire 4K text string is there at the bottom of each page.

I'd like to assume that these theme guys know what they're doing, but this is making me very nervous. 4K is a lot of gibberish to be indexed with each page.

Any opinions on how Google will view this?

[leadegroot]

Its not something I would want to see on my sites - perhaps you should contact the supplier and see what their explanation is?

[jk3210]

Yeah, looks like they just realized what I was complaining about and issued a revision to their theme.