Strangest Thing

raincoaster · Member · Jun 9, 2007 at 7:32 am
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But doing that will probably utterly bork your stats, as Angie Sightings is what they are actually counting. Depends what you want; do you want it to look good, or do you want to know what your readers are reading and how many you’ve got. If I’m interpreting the implications correctly (correct me if you KNOW I’m wrong) you will also be out of the running for Top Blogs, Top Posts, and Growing Blogs, as those are at least partly stats influenced.
ozrisk · Member · Jun 9, 2007 at 11:23 am
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raincoaster,
That piece of CSS, if I am reading it correctly, will just hide angie – she will still be called, you will just not see her.
I might try it to see if it does “bork” the stats.
wank · Member · Jun 9, 2007 at 3:16 pm
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I don’t know why they can’t just use a blank spacer gif like normal people. Everyone using the stats plugin knows that an image is being served and monitored, so it doesn’t have to be visible.
drmike · Member · Jun 9, 2007 at 4:17 pm
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heh heh “Angie sightings” :)

I’d have to go find the link but there is a bit of css that staff has been recommending to remove seeing the face.
ozrisk · Member · Jun 11, 2007 at 5:23 am
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The CSS from zetrindade above works nicely – no angie and stats still operational.
raincoaster · Member · Jun 11, 2007 at 9:02 am
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Cool, thanks for the update. I was getting it confused with another thread where someone removed it entirely.
drmike · Member · Jun 11, 2007 at 4:07 pm
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So Angie’s in hiding and waiting to strike?

Sounds about right….
timethief · Member · Jun 11, 2007 at 4:40 pm
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@drmike ;)

angie’s always lurking and working – don’t take fright
sign in and you won’t see her – sign out and you might

you can cover her up with css – if you must
but she’ll still be lurking – in that you can trust
oldprints · Member · Jun 11, 2007 at 9:38 pm
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If you use Adblock Plus, that handy addon to our favorite browser, Firefox, you will get this (or a similar) URL for the smiley:

http://stats.wordpress.com/g.gif?host=blumoon.wordpress.com&rand=0.6269337444884745&blog=56559&v=wpcom&post=0&subd=blumoon&x_theme=treba&x_lang=en&x_dc=dfw&x_adt=0&x_public=1&x_mapped=0&x_ads=no&x_noads=wrongtype%2Cseen%2Cfirefox%2Cnotsearch&x_pagetype=home&ref=http%3A//en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php%3Fid%3D3996%26page

So indeed, http://stats.wordpress.com/g.gif is a way to generate statistics for blog pages (like which theme you are using etc).
nosysnoop · Member · Jun 12, 2007 at 3:27 am
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I just changed templates and it shows near the top of the blogroll.
nosysnoop · Member · Jun 12, 2007 at 5:05 am
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Nevermind. Just changed the template again.
mlynn · Member · Jan 16, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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Did anyone determine if using the css to set the display attributes to 0 borks the stats?
sdragnev · Member · Feb 15, 2008 at 12:14 am
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Using Digg 3 it appears on the right and for me it spoils the look of the theme. I like things to be symmetrical and the way I want them, so this completely prevents me from using that theme.
Since you cannot edit the css without paying, I think it’s only fair for people to be able to remove it from their blogs.
Putting it on the bottom is absolutely fine with me, but that doesn’t seem to be the case with each theme.
javiarala · Member · Mar 16, 2008 at 7:26 pm
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hi this

img#wpstats{width:0px;height:0px;padding:0px;border:none;overflow:hidden}

really works for firefox but not for safari

does anybody know why or how to solve it for safari?

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