diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_wired.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_wired.py
index 101adca7b0..e49153cd27 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_wired.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_wired.py
@@ -2,36 +2,25 @@
 __license__   = 'GPL v3'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
-import re
 
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class Wired(BasicNewsRecipe):
-    
+
     title = 'Wired.com'
-    __author__ = 'David Chen <SonyReader<at>DaveChen<dot>org>'
+    __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal'
     description = 'Technology news'
     timefmt  = ' [%Y%b%d  %H%M]'
     language = _('English')
     no_stylesheets = True
-    #html2lrf_options = ['--base-font-size', '16']
-    
-    preprocess_regexps = [(re.compile(i[0], re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL), i[1]) for i in 
-  
-                [
-  
-                ## Remove any banners/links/ads/cruft before the body of the article.
-                (r'<body.*?((<div id="article_body">)|(<div id="st-page-maincontent">)|(<div id="containermain">)|(<p class="ap-story-p">)|(<!-- img_nav -->))', lambda match: '<body><div>'),
-  
-                ## Remove any links/ads/comments/cruft from the end of the body of the article.
-                (r'((<!-- end article content -->)|(<div id="st-custom-afterpagecontent">)|(<p class="ap-story-p">&copy;)|(<div class="entry-footer">)|(<div id="see_also">)|(<p>Via <a href=)|(<div id="ss_nav">)).*?</html>', lambda match : '</div></body></html>'),
-  
-                ## Correctly embed in-line images by removing the surrounding javascript that will be ignored in the conversion
-                (r'<a.*?onclick.*?>.*?(<img .*?>)', lambda match: match.group(1),),
-                
-                ]
-            ]
-    
+
+    remove_tags_before = dict(name='div', id='content')
+    remove_tags = [dict(id=['social_tools', 'outerWrapper', 'sidebar',
+        'footer', 'advertisement', 'blog_subscription_unit',
+        'brightcove_component']),
+        {'class':'entryActions'},
+        dict(name=['noscript', 'script'])]
+
     feeds = [
         ('Top News', 'http://feeds.wired.com/wired/index'),
         ('Culture', 'http://feeds.wired.com/wired/culture'),
@@ -47,8 +36,8 @@ class Wired(BasicNewsRecipe):
         ('Tech Biz', 'http://feeds.wired.com/wired/techbiz'),
         ('Commentary', 'http://feeds.wired.com/wired/commentary'),
         ]
-    
+
     def print_version(self, url):
         return url.replace('http://www.wired.com/', 'http://www.wired.com/print/')
-    
-    
\ No newline at end of file
+
+
