I Come Bearing Gifts of a WordPress Plugin Secret!

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!

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