Eliminating the Blog at WordPress.com from footer

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  dberry2014 · Member · Apr 14, 2014 at 8:36 pm

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  Some blog sites, such as the LinkedIn blog, do not have the Blog at WordPress.com in the footer. Why can’t I do that on my blog?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Apr 14, 2014 at 9:40 pm

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  Because it’s a Terms of Service violation that will get your blog suspended.

  11. Attribution. Automattic reserves the right to display attribution links such as ‘Blog at WordPress.com,’ theme author, and font attribution in your blog footer or toolbar. Footer credits and the WordPress.com toolbar may not be altered or removed regardless of upgrades purchased.
  http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

  May I remove the Admin Bar, credit links such as ‘Blog at WordPress.com’, theme, font, or toolbar links?
  All WordPress.com bloggers are required to maintain the Admin Bar (the dark bar that appears at the top of WordPress.com sites when logged in) as well as credit links, even our VIP bloggers. Please do not hide or alter text or links for the footer credits or the toolbar. Modifying the style of the footer text (i.e. colors and font size) is fine as long as it’s still readable. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions

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  dberry2014 · Member · Apr 14, 2014 at 10:01 pm

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  Are there different Terms of Service for different user levels? I noticed on WordPress’s showcased blogs, they don’t appear to have it in the footer. Such as: http://blog.linkedin.com/

  What am I missing?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 14, 2014 at 10:03 pm

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  You are missing nothing. I posted the correct response above.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 14, 2014 at 10:04 pm

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  Note that this site http://blog.linkedin.com/ is NOT hosted by WordPress.COM. The policies that are relevant and applicable to your WordPress.COM hosted blog at http://blog.linkedin.com/ have been posted and linked to above.

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  auxclass · Member · Apr 14, 2014 at 10:13 pm

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  You also are missing: : http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  timethief · Member · Apr 14, 2014 at 10:19 pm

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  @auxclass
  Yahoo! It’s strange day here so far. Good to see you. :)

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  dberry2014 · Member · Apr 14, 2014 at 10:25 pm

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  Ahhh…I can see the difference is the com vs. org / hosted vs. self-hosting. Thanks. Just learning…

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  portfuels · Member · Apr 16, 2014 at 5:22 pm

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  This is ridiculous. I’ve posted about this before – and all I would like to do is remove the word “BLOG” from the footer. I fully support giving credit where credit is due – but if I have a client asking for their site not be to be classified as a ‘blog’, I will need to cancel my subscription and go elsewhere based on this one little word??

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 16, 2014 at 5:28 pm

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  Yes. Duh. If you’ve got people paying you to build sites and you don’t know the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, your clients are wasting their money on you.