How-to: Block Pinterest pinning from your site

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updated March 10th: Added how-to block pinning without advanced templates. Thanks to Typepad's support folks for the tip.

While I am of the "Please pin my stuff" clan, there are others who are of the "Don't Pin me, bro!" tribe. For those folks, a short and sweet method for blocking people from pinning your pages.

Advanced Templates

Add this snippet to the HEAD section of your HTML pages

<meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" />

Without Advanced Templates

Go to your blog's Settings Page, Basics section. Add this snippet to the Blog Description field.

<meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" />

I have it after the actual description on a test blog and it's working fine but this is a bit of a hack so please let me know if you see any weirdness.

Download text file with the NoPinCode and instructions.

By kitchenMage at 6.47 PM on February 21, 2012 in Geeky, Pinterest, Writing About Food

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