Seth Godin WordPress Plugin Exorcism

Posted • August 12, 2010 • 5 Comments

Exorcist Required to Exorcize Seth Godin from This Blog

I have been spending chunks of time this week trying to remove a WordPress Plugin’s “feature” from the Search Engine Optimizician.

“What Would Seth Godin Do” is a great plugin for WordPress. WWSGD has been serving me well for years.

As time has rolled on I have moved past this plugin. The problem is that WWSGD won’t move past me. You can probably still see it at the top of this page/post.
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I have done everything I can think of:

• deactivated the plugin through the WP interface
• deleted the plugin through the WP interface
• installed the plugin and changed the settings through the WP interface
• deactivated the plugin again through the WP interface
• deleted the plugin again through the WP interface
• ftp’d to the server and deleted from the plugins folder
• ftp’d to the server and search for and removed “what_would_seth_godin_do.php“
• I have even repeatedly emptied the cash
• I even deleted and reinstalled the cash plugin

Yet the WWSGD greeting still remains.

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I have been emailing back and forth with Richard K Miller the author of this stubborn little plugin.

Richard has been very cooperative and helpful but yet Seth remains. I have no ill feelings for either WWSGD or Richard.

I would even recommend this plugin for WordPress beginners.

By default, new visitors to your blog will see a small box above each post containing the words “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!” After 5 visits the message disappears. You can customize this message, its lifespan, and its location. The message can be excluded from Pages if desired.

I put out this post for some fresh ideas on how I might possibly be able to exorcize this sticky widget from the Search Engine Optimizician.

Any ideas?
I’m open to anything! Any seance experts out there?

Late,
Gary Pool SEO

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