{"id":23162,"date":"2019-10-27T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T09:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=23162"},"modified":"2019-10-27T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T09:57:39","slug":"remove-spam-likes-from-wordpress-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2019\/10\/27\/remove-spam-likes-from-wordpress-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove spam &#8220;Likes&#8221; from WordPress posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to remove spam &#8220;Likes&#8221; from WordPress posts:<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;Edit&#8221; the post in question, in the usual Post Editor.<\/p>\n<p>2. Look over on the right-hand sidebar, and scroll down.<\/p>\n<p>3. There&#8217;s a &#8220;Likes and Shares&#8221; tab in the Post Editor.  Uncheck the &#8220;Show Likes&#8221; check-box.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2019\/10\/untick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2019\/10\/untick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"460\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. Scroll back up the sidebar, and click the &#8220;Update&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p>This works on both free and hosted WordPress blogs.  Be aware that the above is using the Classic Editor, and things may look a little different if the newer Editor interface is being used.<\/p>\n<p>You can also turn off Avatars (personal icons), if those are too spammy.  The check-box for that is in: Dashboard | Settings | Discussion | Avatars | Avatar Display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to remove spam &#8220;Likes&#8221; from WordPress posts: 1. &#8220;Edit&#8221; the post in question, in the usual Post Editor. 2. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2019\/10\/27\/remove-spam-likes-from-wordpress-posts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jurn-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}