Many of us self-hosted wordpressers use the Taragana.com plugin for copyright infringement on our feeds.
You know the one? It looks like this:
See where it’s underlined? Please contact legal@mooshinindy.com so we can take legal action immediately ? As great as that is, it’s complete useless UNLESS, of course you have set up an email account called LEGAL!
(*waves* Hi Casey, I’m picking because I love you.)
So let us make this plugin relevant, shall we?
I’ve edited my plugin so it appears like this:
See where it’s underlined and says:Please contact temptingmama [at] gmail [dot] com ….
That way anyone trying to contact you doesn’t get their message sent back and their attempt to help being in vain.
Here’s a very simple step-by-step way to edit the plugin for your site:
- Make sure to have a back up of the plugin. If you damage it, Wordpress will simply disable it from your site.
- Open the ‘Plugins’ tab on the top right of your admin panel in wordpress.
- Select ‘Edit’ on the far right of the Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter row.
- Find the line:
// Change this to your email address to handle legal affairs. The default is legal@YOUR_SERVER_NAME.
$legal = ”;
(It’s mid-screen.)
- Now you’re going to edit that line to say:
// Change this to your email address to handle legal affairs. The default is temptingmama [at] gmail [dot] com.
$legal = ”;
- Choose an email address that you want to have all (if any) notices of infringements sent to.
- Make sure that you spell out the [at] and [dot] to deter any bots for picking up your email and spamming the crap outta you!
- Save the changes to the plugin and you’re on your way!
The setting changes will take a little bit (like maybe 24 hours) for your feed to pick it up, so don’t fret if it’s not there immediately!
You’re welcome!
♥
jennydecki says:
I was wondering where to get the ORIGINAL plugin, thanks so much for the link! Now I have the plugin and can customize it. Great two-fer!
greatgreatgreat (I didn’t think I used great enough in this comment LOL)
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September 6th, 2008 at 11:19 am
samantha says:
I ♥ the word great. It’s great.
Your comment was greatly appreciated and I’m glad I could help you out Jenny!
xox
September 6th, 2008 at 11:24 am
moosh in indy. says:
DONE. HA!
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September 6th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Hilly says:
Uhhh, I did not even know about the plugin at all! Thanks for the info!
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September 7th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Kathy says:
I wish Blogger allowed for plug-ins. After having my feed scraped again, I need something like this.
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September 7th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Mrs Mogul says:
I have no idea what a PLUG IN IS!! I need help!!!
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September 8th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Jennifer, Playgroups are no place for children says:
Oooh, thank you! I don’t use that plugin…I mean, I keep meaning to install it.
As soon as I do, I’m totally changing it!
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September 9th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
heather... says:
Oh, this is something I kept meaning to do. I changed it, now I’m just waiting for it to kick in!
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September 12th, 2008 at 4:14 pm