Removing "Like" Button on the Reader
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I’ve asked the expert on how to remove the “Like” button from the reader. I know how to remove the “like” button on all of my post. The expert says:
“I’m Darcie, a member of the WordPress.com Expert community. Sorry, there is not a way to remove that button from the reader. Can you suggest that here?” My reasoning behind when the “like” button is pressed, I get to see who “liked” it from the reader not necessarily a “legitimate” site when I investigate it. I experienced plenty of spammers.I want WordPress to become a solid friendly environment and help us eliminate unsavory sites by allowing us to remove the “Like” button from the reader.
Thank you.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Good day!
This seems like a thread for WordPress Staff to answer. I have added the ‘modlook’ tag for a Staff to respond to your concern.
Cheers,
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Hi there,
It is not possible to remove the Like button from the Reader. You can disable Likes on your site so they won’t display on your posts, but you can’t prevent people from actually liking posts. The only way to prevent that is to set your site to private so only people you specifically invite can see it.
If you don’t want to receive an email every time someone likes one of your posts you can disable that notification under My Site ->Settings ->Discussion.
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Thank you. I am aware of these and each post in my site has no like button. I noticed that some sites that I follow in WP has no like buttons. Surely there is a way.
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I noticed that some sites that I follow in WP has no like buttons.
If this is in the Reader, then those sites are self-hosted sites connected by Jetpack, not WordPress.com sites. There is no way to hide the Like button for a WordPress.com site in the Reader.
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Jetpack is the plugin you use to connect WordPress sites that are hosted on their own servers to WordPress.com.
If you want to host a WordPress site on your own server you’ll need to get a hosting account with another provider, install the WordPress software with them, and use that to build your site. You can transfer your existing content from WordPress.com, but everything else you’ll need to set up from scratch.
You can find some more information, along with links to WordPress.org and some hosting providers, here:
Can you please explain why it’s so important to you that people not be able to like your posts in the Reader? If you have likes disabled on your site it’s not visible anywhere on your site that there even are any likes, and the Reader only displays the number of likes, not who liked the post.
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Subject: Re: Darcie answered your WordPress.com question “Hello, From the reader, how do I remove the “Like” button.”
I’ve asked the expert on how to remove the “Like” button from the reader. I know how to remove the “like” button on all of my post. The expert says:
“I’m Darcie, a member of the WordPress.com Expert community. Sorry, there is not a way to remove that button from the reader. Can you suggest that here?” My reasoning behind when the “like” button is pressed, I get to see who “liked” it from the reader not necessarily a “legitimate” site when I investigate it. I experienced plenty of spammers.I want WordPress to become a solid friendly environment and help us eliminate unsavory sites by allowing us to remove the “Like” button from the reader.
Thank you.
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My reasoning behind when the “like” button is pressed, I get to see who “liked” it from the reader not necessarily a “legitimate” site when I investigate it. I experienced plenty of spammers.
We do get spammers who just use the Like button to get views to their own site, but that doesn’t affect your site in any way. You can just ignore those likes.
Also, just because someone doesn’t have an active site attached to their profile or don’t write about the same topics you write about it doesn’t automatically make them a spammer. You have no way to know whether or not someone who clicked the Like button really read and liked your post or not. I regularly like posts on sites that have nothing to with the topics I write about. I use the Like button to show to the post author I enjoyed reading their post, and to provide a link back to their post on my site via the Blogs I Like widget.
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I get that. That is the problem. i started talking to other WP bloggers without a like button on the reader. I will get their opinion as well.
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