Ok, so I was trying to do my part to oppose SOPA and installed a plugin for WP that would put up a censorship bar or block my pages on a certain date and redirect to the Anti-SOPA site. All was good, and the plugin accomplished it’s tasks as expected. Have completed the tasks, I removed the plugin from my collection, but now I am still getting the censorship bar over the top posts. Not a good thing. After spending a few hours browsing through what I thought were likely code culprits in the WP stack, and searching a variety of key terms in Google, I finally noticed in the Inspect Element window of Firefox Web Developer (love that plug-in) that the offending bar had a post number. Sure enough, I found the post in (of all places) the Posts list. Clicking edit, I saw that it was an empty post, and may have been some artifact from the plugin I had removed. Then again, it may have been some snippet of code that I came across in a fevered search for ways to protest SOPA back in January. My memory is fuzzy on the particulars, and it’s probable that it doesn’t matter where this annoyance came from. What really matters is that it’s gone. The lesson learned: before spending hours looking for some coding error, try looking at content first.