The infamous wordpress stats smiley

  • I understand what the wordpress stats (g.gif) smiley is and why it exists. I’ve ready every forum and support post on it I can find but I still have a few unanswered questions. Please help me understand the following:

    1. How do I move the the image from the very top of my website (where it is all too prominently displayed) to the bottom where it will be out of the way?

    2. When I view the source of my website in the browser, I find no reference to g.gif at all. Why? And how is it being loaded in the browser then?

    3. I tried the method of hiding the smiley face that is in the plugin’s own documentation, meaning that I inserted img#wpstats{display:none}
    into my css file. But it screwed up the font of my post headings and various spacings. Any idea why? I (thought) I took care not to insert it inside of any other css blocks.

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  • try this:

    img#wpstats {
    height:0;
    width:0;
    overflow:hidden;
    }

    Here’s a quick link with some other options if required. Seems to me like it should work okay.

    //www.caramelink.com/hide-the-wordpress-stats-smiley

    Thread Starter aspirant

    (@aspirant)

    Aye, that method seems best — thanks.

    What’s amazing is that a lot of advice out there says, “DO NOT USE display:none to remove the smiley because that would prevent the statistics tracking from working because the image would not be loaded at all by the browser.”

    Yet the WordPress.com Stats plugin’s own in-line documentation says:

    Looking for a way to hide the gif? Put this in your stylesheet:
img#wpstats{display:none}

    Can the folks behind the wordpress stats plugin really be recommending all their users to render the plugin useless?

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