Automattic just released a collection of plugins as one “super-plugin” called Jetpack. As they explained it, the goal was to bring eight of the most requested features available on WordPress.com to the millions of self-hosted WordPress sites in one easy-to-install curated package. If you use JetPack Stats on your site (formerly released as a stand alone plugin called WordPress.com stats), you may be familiar with the smiley face image face :)
that it adds to the bottom of every page on your site.
The smiley was added as a visual way to make sure the stats are tracking and is not something that can be removed directly from the plugin code. Like many other bloggers I do like the WordPress stats service but I’m not a huge fan of it so I looked into how you can remove it. Simplest way to remove it is to go into your themes style sheet (style.css) and put the following code snippet:
[gist id=”2880651″]
Thankfully, the recent release of JetPack addressed this issue. If you go to the configuration page for JetPack stats
http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=jetpack&configure=stats
you will now see an option to hide the smiley image.
![How to hide The WordPress Stats Smiley Face 1 Jetpack WordPress.com Stats Configuration](https://www.narga.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Jetpack-Wordpress.com-Stats-Configuration2-764x528.png)
So now you know how to remove the WordPress Stats smiley face. The question is, do you really want to?!
Thanks for this. I didn’t even know about that link to turn the smile off