diff --git a/widgets/templates/widget_like.tpl b/widgets/templates/widget_like.tpl
index ad529575..b99dbda4 100644
--- a/widgets/templates/widget_like.tpl
+++ b/widgets/templates/widget_like.tpl
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 <style>body {font-size: 0.8em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}</style>
-<span class='f9k_like' title="{{$strlike}}">{{$like}} <img src="{{$baseurl}}/images/like.gif" alt="like"/></span> 
+<span class='f9k_like' title="{{$strlike}}">{{$like}} <img src="{{$baseurl}}/images/like.gif" alt="like"/></span>
+{{if $dislike}}
 <span class='f9k_dislike' title="{{$strdislike}}">{{$dislike}} <img src="{{$baseurl}}/images/dislike.gif" alt="dislike"/></span>
+{{/if}}
diff --git a/widgets/widget_like.php b/widgets/widget_like.php
index 464e6101..8dd6b8a7 100644
--- a/widgets/widget_like.php
+++ b/widgets/widget_like.php
@@ -43,14 +43,18 @@ function like_widget_content(&$a, $conf){
 			DBA::escape($args[0])
 	);
 	$likes = $r[0]['c'];
-	$iid = $r[0]['id'];
 
-	// count dislikes
-	$r = q( $baseq . "AND `item`.`verb` = 'http://purl.org/macgirvin/dfrn/1.0/dislike'",
-			intval($conf['uid']),
-			DBA::escape($args[0])
-	);
-	$dislikes = $r[0]['c'];
+	$dislikes = 0;
+	$strdislike = '';
+	if (!DI::pConfig()->get(local_user(), 'system', 'hide_dislike')) {
+		// count dislikes
+		$r = q( $baseq . "AND `item`.`verb` = 'http://purl.org/macgirvin/dfrn/1.0/dislike'",
+				intval($conf['uid']),
+				DBA::escape($args[0])
+		);
+		$dislikes = $r[0]['c'];
+		$strdislike = DI::l10n()->tt("%d person doesn't like this", "%d people don't like this", $dislikes);
+	}
 
 
 	$o = "";
@@ -62,7 +66,7 @@ function like_widget_content(&$a, $conf){
 		'$strlike'	=> DI::l10n()->tt("%d person likes this", "%d people like this", $likes),
 
 		'$dislike'	=> $dislikes,
-		'$strdislike'=> DI::l10n()->tt("%d person doesn't like this", "%d people don't like this", $dislikes),
+		'$strdislike'=> $strdislike,
 	]);
 
 	return $o;