Ad on Stats Page
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I now have an ad for a WordPress product on my stats page. It says “Start earning money now.” There is no way to make it go away. I am paying for Premium, so there should be no ads.
The whole idea of my site is to provide free materials and advice for teachers, so the idea of monetizing it is offensive. How can I make it go away?
Thanks.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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That isn’t an ad for the public to see as it is on your stats page where only you can see it. It is just WordPress.com’s (perhaps clumsy) attempt to remind users of features available in higher plans if they ever wish to upgrade.
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Ok, I’m reminded. How can I make it go away? It should have an x or something to do that.
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I am assuming from the non-response that the ad is here to stay. It even has a big star on it to make sure that I see it every single time I go to the stats page and get angry all over again.
I abandoned Windows for Linux for a number of reasons, but one of them was that Microsoft started putting ads in the middle of unavoidable routine operations. Is WordPress attempting to outdo Microsoft on annoying its users? It seems so. Of course, this is nothing, a tiny flare of annoyance, compared to the block editor. I don’t even want to get started on that again.
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I’m not staff so I can’t make it go away. And you’ve posted at the weekend when less staff are available. You can always add a modlook tag if you’re determined to get a response from staff. My opinion is that as it appears on the stats page it is neither here nor there. Visitors to my free site are subjected to far worse.
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Hi there, if that message appears on your site’s
My Homepage, right next to the button that says “Start Making Money” there is a link to “Hide This”. If you use the little arrow next to that you can dismiss that message “Forever.”I haven’t run into this yet on my Stats page, but see if there is a similar message with a possibility to dismiss it.
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Yes, on the home page there is a “hide this” button (which just replaces one ad with another), but on the stats page, while there is a right arrow, anywhere you click on the ad it takes you to a whole page of ways to rake in the money, a slew of tutorials on monetizing your site.
I am sure that these are useful to some folks out there, but I am pretty sure if people are interested in making money off their site, they are actively seeking ways to do so. Because the whole purpose of my site is to bypass expensive textbooks and textbook publishers and provide teachers with my materials for free, this pitch for monetization is quite contrary to the philosophy of the site. I know that my readers can’t see this particular ad. That is not the issue. It is offensive and annoying to me. I don’t see why WordPress would put ads for services right in the middle of the tools for operating WordPress. If it were a free site, maybe I could see it, but I am a paying customer.
But this is just another item in a long list of unhappy decisions made by WordPress.
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I’d never noticed it until you posted in this thread as I always use the good old /wp-admin stats page.
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Sorry, it was just a suggestion. I’ve just logged in to the one site I have under the Premium upgrade plan and understand what you mean.
Regardless, I’ve gone ahead and added the MODLOOK tag to this thread so Staff can note your feedback. Thanks.
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The other stats page shows downloads and countries, both of which are important to me.
I actually never go to WP-Admin, though because I clicked the “try the block editor” button on one of my sites, I think I will have to go that way on that site to get to the classic editor.
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Can I add my complaint to all the others? I saw the ad and it annoyed me immensely exactly as in Guitar’s first post here, but I did not want to start a thread on it. Since others complain I will add mine to theirs. The orange star especially is infuriating. Please remove this horrible ad. Like Guitar, I am not using my sites to earn money but to provide free information. I hope WP will take note of the complaints and act and remove it, or at least enable us to remove it. Thank you.
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I will add that I agree with every word Guitar wrote except the assumption that it is here to stay, based on no-response. The latter could be due to weekend, and we must have patience for a staff reply.
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Hi there,
Regardless of what plan you’re on, you’ll always see nudges for features in your plan that you’re not using, and upsells for features included in other plans, in your site’s dashboard. The premium plan removes ads from your site itself, so visitors to your site don’t see ads, but it does not remove upsells for our own services from the dashboard.
It’s not currently possible to dismiss these messages, but I’ve relayed your feedback to our marketing team so they can consider this.
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@kokkieh
It is one thing to remind us of features available, quite another to nag and drive us mad over something, take our mind off what we are trying to concentrate on doing, infuriate us each time, and force us to think only about why we do not want to do what you are trying to force us to do, taking our mind off the creations and amendments we wish to make.
In particular here, the horrid, horrible terrifying orange star, and above all, the absence of a means of switching it off after seeing it, which is in no way justified.Yes, on the home page there is a “hide this” button (which just replaces one ad with another), but on the stats page, while there is a right arrow, anywhere you click on the ad it takes you to a whole page of ways to rake in the money, a slew of tutorials on monetizing your site.
Horrible!
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@kokkieh
The initial effect of these “upsell” ads on me is annoyance that builds to slow burn anger at WordPress, that eventually subsides to background noise as my brain trains itself not to see these intrusions into the work environment. I doubt that any of these reactions is what your marketing people are looking to create.I was initially attracted to WordPress because the business model was not Google’s or Facebook’s, where the user is the product, not the customer, and data harvesting is the game. I don’t mind paying for a service. But that means I am actually the customer and I shouldn’t have ads for more services sticking out like a sore thumb with a star on it in the middle of my tools.
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The initial effect of these “upsell” ads on me is annoyance that builds to slow burn anger
For once I do not exactly agree in my support of Guitar. The effect on me, at least of the horrible orange star, is annoyance that builds up QUICKLY to anger.
I doubt that any of these reactions is what your marketing people are looking to create.
I am not so sure.
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I, too, just saw this on my stats page. It really, really needs to go. At the very least give us a “hide forever” button.
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A week and no reply! Can a staff member give us a good acceptable reason why it is absolutely and completely impossible for them to supply a hide button?
I tagged modlook for staff but the tag disappeared. I have tagged it again. -
When I logged on today, there were two of them, the one in the middle about monetizing the site and a new one advertising Jetpack at the top. However, the Jetpack one had an X on the right. Clicking the X made it disappear. Huzzah!
But the monetizing one is still sitting there in the middle. It has no X. So one step back, one step forward, still in the same place.
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