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Editing the Meta file (5 posts)

  1. jerseyjoe
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I'm trying to edit a file called lsidebar.php in a theme. The left sidebar displays, among other things:

    Log In / Register

    * Site Admin
    * Log out
    * Entries RSS
    * Comments RSS
    * Wordpress.org

    First of all, I'm confused because the code says the block title should display as "Meta." (I'll paste the code below.)

    But actually the blog is displaying as "Log In / Register". Where is that coming from if not from the lsidebar.php file?

    Further the code calls for "This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional" but that's not displaying. Nor is the "Valid XHTML" coded in this file displaying.

    When I delete the those spurious links in the TE and also FTP an overwrite of the file, there is no change. It's as if I made no edit at all.

    And there is no code for two RSS links that are displaying.

    Apprentlyly, lsidebar.php is not what controls this block.

    So where do I make the edits I want in left sidebar if lsidebar.php is not it?

    An attempted edit of the Post line that reads "Read the rest of this entry ยป" involves another mystery. I change it to display "Continue reading." But despite editing it in both the Theme Editor and via FTP overwrite to the server, the change does not display.

    Yes, the files and folders are CHMODed to 777 and I get no error msgs from edits either the TE or the FTP.

    I'm really confused. Never saw any thing like this before. I must be doing something really wrong. Obviously, the files are edited, but what I see on site is not changed at all.

    Can anyone put me on the right track?

    TIA
    (Here's the original code from the lsidebar.phh file)

  2. <h2>Meta</h2>

  • jerseyjoe
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    sorry - I'm learning how to use this inetrface. I'll post the snippet again. I hope backticks and backslash are the same - toerwise I have no idea - it would have been helpful if a backtick is dispolayed as a an example.

    \

  • <h2>Meta</h2>

    • \

  • jerseyjoe
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    well - that's all I can do with what I've I've been given here. What's a backtick look like on my keyboard?

  • whooami
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    it looks a backwards apostrophe

    http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/images/backtick.png

    but all you have to do is use the code box..and it wraps it for you

  • jerseyjoe
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Maybe it's the lower key below tilda (~)? I'll try it. 

    <li><h2>Meta</h2>
				<ul>
					<?php wp_register(); ?>
					<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
					<li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional">Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a></li>
					<li><a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/"><abbr title="XHTML Friends Network">XFN</abbr></a></li>
					<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">WordPress</a></li>
					<?php wp_meta(); ?>
				</ul>
				</li>

    Thank you for that help. Really appreciated.

    OK, so that's what the theme code looks like but it clearly is not what is displayed and I can't find the code that actually is being displayed in the theme. Very strange?

    Suggestions, please?

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