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Overkill
Linkbacks to open source stuff you use is cool. If you use open source stuff and DON'T give a linkback to the source you suck. Pretty simple right? But when does link-love to the source go from cool to overkill? Sorry Francois, but my answer is: when the footer is full of it.
With that in mind, and not wanting to kill the ability to give credit where appropriate, I figured out how to kill the overkill.
This will be a two-part single file hack, applicable to v240RC2. By the way if you're using 2.anything it ought to be v240RC2. There is NO officially stable release in the 2.* generation, so you kinda gotta keep up with the upgrades until a stable happens.
Anyway the first thing you do is edit inc/_vars.inc.php and change lines 182-184 to:
$credit_links = array_merge( array(
array( 'http://b2evolution.net/" title="powered by b2evolution', 'b2evolution' ) ),
$credit_links );
This will remove all the miscellaneous linkage that shows up in the footer, like blog hosting and getting ads and stuff. Nice information for some I'm sure, but not something I felt like promoting in the bottom of my web.
EDIT: The second step is obsolete.
What this now means is that the first credit in the footer will be to b2evolution.net. The next bunch will come from conf/_advanced.php if you happen to put anything in there, and the rest will come from either the skin or plugins if you allow link-backs for plugin authors.
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Not only that the sidebar has two b2ads and the footer has them as well, there's the tiny one in the RSS feed.But they could get away with that, if they would not try to make money with referrals to webhosting from my Site as well....
Anyhow, I'll do as you suggest tomorrow
Thanks once again!!!
ads in the sidebar? um... a link-back isn't exactly an "ad" but I guess one could see it that way. I don't understand 2 of them though.A link-back in the sidebar, the footer, and the feeds seems a small price to pay for awesome software?
That's three placements on the blog, a in the reader, plus the link to monetize, plus the link(s) to the ones that did the feed.No, not too much.
Sure not.
Next time I sell my pictures, I'll print in huge letters my web address all the way across the front
Did you BUY b2evolution? 
It's free open source software. You are free to do what you want with it, including use it to make money, remove any and all crediting links, and even claim it as your own creation (I've seen that done). You can even call link-backs ads if you want.
What you're not free to do is piss and moan about link-backs in free software here.Sorry - it was not meant THAT way.I am far from claiming it as my own and I like to give linklove, like you well know.
Sorry, I leave you alone now. I guess I need to go and learn some proper English....
No no no - I understand that YOU are not claiming you created the blog engine you use. What I meant was that there are people who have done exactly that and that they are certainly allowed to do that even though it's not true.Believe it or not people have actually replaced "powered by b2evolution" with "powered by {{my domain name}}" then signed up with the forums to ask help then gotten mad because most of us won't help people who do that sort of thing.
I understand your grievance: I really do. What I don't understand is calling a link-back an "ad" even though I guess I can see where it is actually advertising the product.
The credit link-back in your feeds is a setting on your Blog settings tab. You can remove it or replace it with whatever you see fit to replace it with.
I sometimes call things different than you guys in the US, because I am German and I a) learned British English and b) am not perfect.And sometimes I type first and think later.
And sometimes I sound like bitching and ranting to others when I think, I'm just talking.
That's when the harsh tone of the German in me takes over.
*shrug*
*back to bed now, letting the Internet world being the Internet world*
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