For the longest time I thought that even though I had a developer edition of the Thesis framework and had removed the attribution from the footer, it was still forcing me to have an annoying little smiley face icon at the bottom of my customized theme.
Turns out it’s a function of the wordpress.com stats plugin.
Simplest way to remove it is to go into your themes stylesheet (style.css) and put the following code snippet:
img#wpstats{width:0px;height:0px;padding:0px;border:none;overflow:hidden}
If you’re using thesis, just head to custom.css and paste in;
.custom img#wpstats{width:0px;height:0px;padding:0px;border:none;overflow:hidden}
Problem solved, easy eh?
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We often help clients with issues like this … something that maybe isn’t well explained that comes from a plug-in or widget and causes unexpected consequences.
With regard to the smiley caused by wordpress stats plugin, they offer the solution in their own FAQ pages by the way:
Ironically however, their description does not explain that the smiley is installed/displayed. I dislike when a plug-in doesn’t clearly explain what it does to your appearance up front. Seems to be a shortcoming in their documentation at present time.