How may I rid unwanted banners and gravatars from popping up on my homepage?

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    breakfastbythesea · Member ·

    When readers visit my homepage, http://jamesrusselllingerfelt.wordpress.com/author/breakfastbythesea/
    they see a giant label reading “James Russell Lingerfelt” (not the header) and also a banner with a gravatar reading “author of the mason jar” and “jamesrussell.org.” I have tried and tried to get rid of the giant label as well as the banner with the gravatar. I can’t figure it out. It’s very frustrating.
    I’ve also wanted to rid the “author/breakfastbythesea” handle at the end of my web address and can’t figure that out either.
    Can someone help? I do want to understand wordpress better. I love the features but I find it difficult to find these options.

    Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
    Russell

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    To off-set the costs of providing free hosting to millions of bloggers, WordPress.com has been running advertising on our free hosted blogs since 2006. Many bloggers do not know this because despite the fact they ticked the box required to get a free blog, they did not read the ToS. Many also do not read the advertising entry in the support documents after registering their username and blog(s). Also note that as the ads do not display to us when we are logged in, and as many use browsers with ad blockers when logged out, they may not realize they are there at all.

    10. Advertisements. Automattic reserves the right to display advertisements on your blog unless you have purchased an Ad-free Upgrade or a VIP Services account. http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

    If the ads you see are found at the end of blog posts then provided you see this small About These Ads link what you are seeing is WordPress.com generated advertising.

    WordPress.com does not use text enhance or text link ads or pop-up ads or links in comments. If you are seeing those then that’s a browser-ad-on issue, or in some cases, it’s embedded into free games downloaded from the internet. See here: Bloggers: Beware of Adware.

    If what you are seeing whenever you save or update a post or page is an automatically added code/script block at the end of posts and pages that you can’t delete then see here: Malware Targets Macs and Windows PCs

    All of WordPress.com ads are family-friendly. If you feel an ad is inappropriate please take a screenshot of it, upload it via Media -> Add New to your Media Library. Then return to this thread to post the file name to let Staff them know it’s there for them to view.

    Lastly, note to eliminate all advertising on our free hosted WordPress.com blogs we can purchase an annually renewable No-Ads upgrade.

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    timethief · Member ·

    they see a giant label reading “James Russell Lingerfelt” (not the header)

    Provided you are logged in under the username account that registered the blog Site Titles (Blog Names) and/or optional Taglines can be changed at any time here > Settings > General.

    also a banner with a gravatar reading “author of the mason jar” and “jamesrussell.org.”

    I do not see that on your blog.

    I’ve also wanted to rid the “author/breakfastbythesea” handle at the end of my web address and can’t figure that out either.

    That is your author data. You enter it here > Users > My Profile > About you http://jamesrusselllingerfelt.wordpress.com/author/breakfastbythesea/

    If you do not want it to display then you can choose a theme that does not provide it.

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