Disable the follow button

unipodadvice · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 1:29 pm
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Hi
On every blog, I suppose, one get the button ‘follow’ on the right bottom corner.
Is there any way how to disable this button, or is it part of WordPress term&conditions, to have it on every blog.

Kind Regards

The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
ardpete · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 1:54 pm
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The follow button located on the top admin bar can’t be deactivated as it’s built in, there are no follow buttons in the right bottom corner?
ardpete · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 1:56 pm
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If you mean the subscribe widget however, this can be removed in Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets and removing the Subscribe widget, if a blog you follow has a subscribe button, it’s because they put it there.
noirciplume · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 2:28 pm
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@ardpete: you must be really bored at work to help out here ;)
ardpete · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 2:41 pm
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I’ve taken 16 calls and logged about 2 or 3 emails an hour since 9am, so yeah it keeps me from falling asleep :)
unipodadvice · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 2:47 pm
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Thanks @ardpete for helping here. I don’t actually have the Follow Blog widget on (it’s sitting in the available widget section) so not sure why it’s showing up!

Any other suggestions?
ardpete · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 2:50 pm
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As your blog is set to private I can’t look at it to see if it shows for me.
unipodadvice · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 3:07 pm
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Sorry it’s not that blog (that is a whole other issue!!) My main blog is at http://www.bigstickphotography.wordpress.com

Many thanks
noirciplume · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 3:17 pm
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Right bottom corner, there is follow button on your blog.
noirciplume · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 3:18 pm
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I missed out the ‘no’

I can’t see a follow button there.
unipodadvice · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 3:41 pm
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Really?? It’s coming up on mine. Are you logged in though as then it appears at the top?

I don’t think I can remove it for WordPress members, but for the average user of our site I don’t want it to show. It’s so annoying!

I’ve logged out and it appears. We don’t want people to register for updates, just to see the blog/site in its full glory as it is ;0)

Thanks
noirciplume · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 4:05 pm
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oh you mean the grey admin bar on top. Yeah you can’t get rid of that, that’s a part of WordPress.
noirciplume · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 4:06 pm
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The admin bar disappears when you have logged out.
noirciplume · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 4:08 pm
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ahh ok I see what you mean when you say the ‘bottom right corner.’ I see it when i log out. I don’t think there’s any way of getting rid of that.
ardpete · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 4:08 pm
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I’ve logged out and I see what you mean now, unfortunately I think this is built in too :(
unipodadvice · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 4:23 pm
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That’s strange though as I had a company design the blog for me and it wasn’t there. When it was transferred to me it appeared.

Maybe a Happiness Engineer can help?? Please…..

Cheers
noirciplume · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 4:46 pm
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Disregard everything I just said. I believe you can disable the button

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/more-traffic-for-your-blog-with-the-follow-button/
(Question 2):

2. I don’t like it. How can I turn it off on my blog? Easy. Go to your Dashboard. Click on Settings, then Reading, then Email. Sorry you don’t like it – but we understand. If you change your mind, this is also the place to go to customize the message new followers (subscribers) will see.
ardpete · Member · Oct 13, 2011 at 7:36 pm
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That’s why you’re freshly pressed.
unipodadvice · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 8:14 am
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Done. Thanks so much!!!
noirciplume · Member · Oct 14, 2011 at 11:16 am
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You are welcome!

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