Apparently it was easier than going into the code.
the lovely @RichardMackney says you can switch it on or off
“Under the Posterous setting tab: “Enable Facebook Like and Twitter Retweet Buttons”
I went into the advanced section into the raw code and cut and pasted it all into a text editor
(it’s then worth saving that code as a text file for backup just in case)
Then I did a search for “facebook“
I found a url that contained the word Facebook a few lines down from the top.<html xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=“en” lang=“en” xmlns:fb=“http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml“>
I deleted this url (all between the ” “‘s) and left it empty ie
<html xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xml:lang=“en” lang=“en” xmlns:fb=““>
There were no other appearances of “Facebook in my theme
so then I did a search for “Like“
Then I found these lines… <div style=”float: left; padding: 5px; overflow: visible;”>
<fb:like href=”{Permalink}” layout=”button_count”></fb:like>
</div>
<br style=”clear: both;” /> I deleted all of these few lines without disturbing any of the surrounding code
and leaving behind
{RetweetButton}
</div>
empty space
<br style=”clear: both;” />
{/block:Retweet}
A quick search revealed no other “Likes”
I cut and pasted these back into the code window and clicked save and close
and alll Goneded