By default, the WP meta widget shows the login link for site admin and a link to WP.org. This bugged the heck out of me so I dug around (and Googled) to try and figure out what to do. I found out the solution and wanted to put it in this post, but for some strange reason WP is recognizing the code even when I use code tags. I guess there’s just too much code in there. The only thing I could think to do was to make a gif. The thumbnail is to the left. Dear lord. There has to be an easier way of doing this.
In any case, you’d like to get rid of the links in your meta widget here’s what to do:
- Navigate to wp_includes on your server
- Find widget.php
- Save a backup copy of widget.php to your computer (name it something like widget_org.php)
- Take out what I have starred in the gif (click on the thumbnail)
- If you use line numbers, I believe the ones you need to take out are 476, 477 and 480
You should be good to go after that. If not, upload the backup file to wp_includes and change the name back to the original one (widgets.php).
If you’re in CH Switzerland 6-8 Feb 2008, you may want to hit up the LIFT Conference: “LIFT is a series of events intended to facilitate and promote discussion about new technologies and their impact on our society. The conference happens in both Geneva (Switzerland) and Seoul (South Korea) every year, with smaller events happening all around the year.”
“Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. The tool is still in development and this is just the first phase of testing. For now, using it is by invitation only. But we wanted to share with everyone the basic premises and goals behind this project.
Not sure if it’s a “Wikipediakiller,” but it may make it catch a cold. Note to Google: You may want to put something at knol.google.com or google.com/knol just to keep the buzz up.
The world’s fourth-largest Internet search engine - a distant fourth, way behind Google, Yahoo and MSN - is a business-to-business provider, selling search services to corporations.
But Exalead, based in Paris, now wants to broaden out to see what it can do in the consumer market. Two weeks ago, it started tests of a “social search” concept it calls Baagz.
I checked out Baagz and signed up for an invitation. I’ll let y’all know what comes of it.
Proving that new media is an important part of spreading the word about human rights, Witness.org has launched The Hub. Witness.org uses audio and video documentation to expose human rights violations. The Hub offers a place for you to upload audio and video and create communities based on issues of note. The Alive in Baghdad group is an example. (By the way, Alive in Baghdad gives some of the best insight into daily Baghdad life that I’ve seen on the Web. There’s no reporter voiceover, so you get to hear about Iraq from Iraqis. You can subscribe to the videos in iTunes or through the AiB site.)
The current Hub Editor’s Pick cellphone video shows what seems to be a young man being slapped around by police in Egypt.
After a video is uploaded to The Hub, it can serve as a launchpad for further discussion.
With cellphones becoming easier to use to capture events, The Hub is presenting yet another way to take note and take action.
This video has been making the rounds, but I first saw it over on Bruno Giussani’s site:
I find it interesting that the folks who made this video and uploaded it had no problem with portions of YouTube’s Terms of Use:
“C. For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the YouTube Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the Website and under these Terms of Service. The above licenses granted by you in User Videos terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your User Videos from the YouTube Service. You understand and agree, however, that YouTube may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of User Submissions that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you in User Comments are perpetual and irrevocable.”
Now granted, YouTube doesn’t push you to list private information, but I think the present Facebook brouhaha is just that, brouhaha. *Anytime* a person signs up (or even posts, see Typepad/Six Apart’s privacy policy, especially “Information Use, Sharing and Disclosure”) for a site, they are sharing personal information.
The degrees are different, but info is shared just the same.
To wrap text around a photo in the Tranquility theme from Roy Tanck, the one I’m using now, go to styles.css and find the line for the story content image (.storycontent img) and add a float tag: .storycontent img {
border: 4px solid #111;
margin: 4px;
float: left;
margin-right:10px;
margin-bottom:10px;
}
I thinned the border to 4px from the original 10px. Also, to make the text top flush with the top of the image, tweak the margin tag.
By default, the WP meta widget shows the login link for site admin and a link to WP.org. This bugged the heck out of me so I dug around (and Googled) to try and figure out what to do. I found out the solution and wanted to put it in this post, but for some strange reason WP is recognizing the code even when I use code tags. I guess there’s just too much code in there. The only thing I could think to do was to make a gif. The thumbnail is to the left. Dear lord. There has to be an easier way of doing this.
