LJ Facebook/Twitter work around to get rid of the annoying boxes

[camrogers]

Originally posted by beren_writes at LJ Facebook/Twitter work around to get rid of the annoying boxes

stolen from pombagira who pulled it from someone else who pulled it from yet another person :) Yes, this is signal boosting.

Passing this along from my flist.

Thanks to midniterose, here is how to stop the crossposting of comments/entries from LJ to sites like Facebook:

There is a way to disable everything. Here is what you have to do:

1. Go to your "Journal" menu, and select "Journal Style"
2. To the right, you'll see what theme you're using, with a link stating "Customize Your Theme". Click that link.
3. Scroll down a little ways, and you'll see that on the left side of your screen, you have multiple options to modify your theme. Click on the "Custom CSS" link, and it should load the options for doing Custom CSS.
4. From here, all you have to do is go to the "Custom Stylesheet", and put in that line.

.b-repost-item {display:none}

once you have it pasted in there, save changes.

Feel free to PASS THIS ON!!

ETA: This prevents the "repost to FB/Twitter" ticky boxes from being displayed when someone comments on one of your posts. It seems to work, UNLESS the person is viewing your page in their own journal style, in which case it might not work.

ETA2: Inserting the code below in your custom CSS box reportedly works for more kinds of journal styles, including custom ones (this courtesy of xnguard):

.b-repost-item, FORM#qrform > TABLE[style="border: 1px solid black;"]:last-child TD[style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;"]:first-child { display: none !important; }

Comments

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I believe .b-repost-item {display:none} only works for Paid accounts.
Basic can't edit CSS style sheets, so so it seemed yesterday when I tried to do it.

There's a Greasemonkey script to kill the FB/Twitter boxes too: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/85105

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

wouldn't the grease monkey script only work on your own account as well ?

I have the FB/ twit boxes showing on this post cam.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Greasemonkey just hides the FB/Twitter boxes, doesn't disable it AFAIK.

[yamakasi.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not viewing things in my own style and I can see the FB/Twitter links in the comment box for this post (I'm assuming you've input the CSS to prevent them from showing, too). They are, however, greyed out so I can't accidentally click on them. Though I'm not sure if that's because of the CSS or because I haven't "connected" a FB/Twitter account to my LJ, or even because I'm using IE.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

I think it's because you haven't enabled the functionality.

They seem to have changed it to opt in.

[yamakasi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was my guess, too. I had thought the CSS removed/hid the links completely, though? Or is that just the Greasemonkey script that does that?