Remove Wordpress Meta

Categories: Tips, Wordpress | Jan 17, 2009

This is a quick wordpress tip. If you are hosting your wordpress on a server and want to Remove the unnecessary links from Wordpress sidebar such as Entire RSS, Commments RSS then follow this steps.

Go to to your wordpress includes folder and and find widgets.php, it should be at the end
Open it in any text editor (notepad ++ , smultron) and do a quick search by pressing CMD/WIN + F. This will bring up the find options. The meta block code starts from line 847.
The code will look like this

<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php echo attribute_escape(__('Syndicate this site using RSS 2.0')); ?>"><?php _e('Entries <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>'); ?></a></li>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php echo attribute_escape(__('The latest comments to all posts in RSS')); ?>"><?php _e('Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>'); ?></a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="<?php echo attribute_escape(__('Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.')); ?>">WordPress.org</a></li>

Leave these two line and remove whatever you don’t need such as RSS, Comments and Wordpress

<?php wp_register(); ?>

<?php wp_loginout(); ?>

That all. Hope this was helpful!

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bill says:

February 8, 2010 at 8:31 am

is it not easier just to edit your themes/theme_name/sidebar.php and comment out/remove:

Bill

Rainbow Skill says:

January 15, 2010 at 8:30 am

Thanks for the useful tips about how to Remove the unnecessary links from Wordpress. Thank you so much for the information.

kthxbai2u says:

December 24, 2009 at 10:25 am

This doesn’t work in 2.9, they must have moved the widget HTML somewhere else. I will be looking for the new solution and posting it on my site
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Website Design says:

January 1, 2010 at 2:21 am

Aha! It seems like the WordPress Meisters don’t want people to fiddle too much! Why else would they move the code? I am sure the relevant information is out there somewhere. Just Google it!

Grandview Rentals says:

January 6, 2010 at 12:45 am

Ok guys, here is how to remove the wordpress hyperlink in the latest wordpress release:

Open the file default-widgets.php and do a search for

You will see the hyperlink in the code right below and just delete it.
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- Grandview Rentals says:
  
  January 6, 2010 at 12:52 am
  
  I guess I post the code here because it’s php so I did a post on the wordpress support forum.
  
  Here it is:
  
  http://wordpress.org/support/topic/348734?replies=1#post-1339812

tito says:

October 26, 2009 at 10:03 pm

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