DESPICABLE RED MERSI BUTTON—HOW do I erase this?
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Hi WordPress. There’s a spammer on my website, and I deleted his comment at once after seeing that WP tagged the comment as SPAM. Yet what happened was all my blog posts ended up having this RED MERSI button right below the comment section of my post. Mersi, apparently, is a button that asks money from the readers. I don’t want to monetize my writing so: how can I delete this Red Mersi button. I checked the settings but I think I can do nothing about it—or at least you from WP has ways to put it out of my site.
You’ve helped me once before so I am hoping that you can do the same great thing again. :)
Need your help, guys.
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The button should not be able to be added to your site – I can see the button – maybe some sort of security something
I have flagged this for the staff to help
You can try the Omnisearch button and search on the address of the button – right click on the button and you can copy the link without visiting the site – or just hover over the button and write down the address
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I looked into this and here is how you can turn this off:
Go to http://www.mersimo.com, log in (link at upper right) with WordPress.com username and password. If you are already logged into your WordPress.com account, then you will be asked to “authorize” the connection.
On your account page under “Connected Blogs”, click delete to the right of your blog URL and then click OK on the “are you sure” popup. Log out of Mersimo by clicking the link at the top right of that page.
I’ll post back here when I have more information on this for you.
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Mersimo is a third-party service and is not associated with WordPress.com. Before the button will appear on a user’s site, the user has to sign up, authorize the connection to their blog, and add their blog before it will be activated.
The Mersimo code is added to the end of the posts, so if a user decides to deactivate the Mersimo service, they will have to manually edit each post where the button appears and remove the code. The code is enclosed in “section” HTML tags, so you will have to remove both the opening and ending section tag and everything in between. The easiest way to do this is to switch to the Text tab in the editor and scroll to the bottom of the post.:
<section id="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" style="margin-top: 50px;"> <p style="text-align: center;">Like my post? Please <span style="text-decoration: underline;">support me</span> by clicking on the <i>Mersi</i> button</p> <a href="http://mersi.me/11n"><img class="aligncenter" alt="Mersi ME!" src="http://mersi.me/btn/mersi.png" /></a> </section> -
From researching this a little further, it seems the company, which has a WordPress.com account/blog, is leaving comments on WordPress.com community members sites inviting them to try the service. Perhaps they’ve been a little too zealous in commenting around the community and managed to flag themselves as spam and this is why the OP found the comment in her site’s spam folder.
Unless the OP is perversely asking for attention (which I would like not to believe) somehow the despicable buttons showed up without them doing anything.
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So how could I put this button out of my blog? I’ve checked appearance but could not do anything about it.
Thanks.
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None of us has an explanation for how it got there, but at least now you know how to get rid of it.
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@byduskinnia – thesacredpath explained above that you need to do 2 things to get rid of this button from appearing on your site:
1.) log-in to the service at the link he gave above and deactivate your account. This will prevent the button from appearing on future posts.
2.) To remove the button on existing posts, you will have to manually edit each post in the post’s text editor to remove the content in the “section” tag.
Read both his above posts carefully and do each step-by-step
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Thanks Jen. I should have said what you posted: I really really don’t want this on my own site…
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When I went looking up this “service” Google results came back with about 26,000 instances of this button on WPcom. A lot of sites mentioned that they’d signed up to try it out. As a general observation, the posts on those sites got shorter and shorter or were basically reblogs, all with the despicable button on them. (FWIW on reblogs, the WPcom sharing buttons are disabled on the reblog.)
What I find disturbing is that the OP apparently did not sign up and yet the button somehow appears on their site. I will be happy to understand better how this happened.
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What I find disturbing is that the OP apparently did not sign up and yet the button somehow appears on their site. I will be happy to understand better how this happened.
I also find this disturbing and would like to get to the bottom of it. I don’t want any such crap on my blogs and it’s why I pay for No-Ads upgrades.
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@byduskinnia, you are welcome, and please let us know if you have any additional questions or problems.
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