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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
wp_includes
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.

meta_block
The code will look like this

<?php wp_register(); ?>
<?php wp_loginout(); ?>
<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>
<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>
<a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="<?php echo attribute_escape(__('Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.')); ?>">WordPress.org</a>

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!

Update: For the latest version, open up the file default-widgets.php go to line 295 to find the snippet.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/maharajajaisingh Jai Singh

    i am using wordpress 3.3.1. i cant edit it…..can you explain how to do it

  • http://www.mehrath.de Fussbaelle

    Thanks for the advice. Now I am able to get rid of the needless links on my WordPress sidebar.

  • Dave

    Great tip. I tried to do this last week and thought the files I needed to look at were in the theme files I was using. Did not think of looking where you suggested. Now all removed – thanks

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  • http://www.noobness.com Lee

    OMG, thanks for this, i have been looking everywhere for this solution.

    Looked in my sidebar first but couldnt fnd it anywhere, so thank you again.

    keep up the good work!

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    Thanks for this useful information Now I can solve my problem. Good work!

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    Wow thanks for the tutorial. implemented in on my blog…

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    i host 5 of my blogs on Blogspot and it is really good for beginners. but if you want something with more features, nothing beats wordpress;~;

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    WordPress is the best blogging platform ever. It is much better than Typepad and blogspot.;:;

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  • bill

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

    Bill

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      Exactly what I suggested… Here is my article:

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

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    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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      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!

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  • SIMON

    Thx 4 help, but in WP 2.8 you have to look for these links in ‘default-widgets.php’ file.

    Regards,
    SIMON

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