How to Hide the WordPress Stats Smiley the Right Way

Smiley

For anyone who uses the WordPress.com stats plugin, you’ll notice it inserts a small smiley image in your footer. This image needs to be loaded to track the stats.
Some people might think this little smiley face is “cute”. The rest of you will find the smiley image unsightly (and possibly evil looking) and will look for ways to remove it. This post will go over:

First of all, what not to do when hiding the smiley
How to properly hide it, with some extra absolute position goodness for certain layouts
If you’d rather not hide it, how to easily center the smiley image

What Not to Do
Don’t ever use display:none to hide the WP Stats Smiley.
First of all, I want to go over the one thing you shouldn’t do when attempting to hide the WP Stats Smiley, and that’s use: display:none. Yeah, I said that twice, but…

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