if this is the standard meta widget supplied with the widget plugin, you need to edit the widget plugin itself, its a long file, so search for meta in it until you find the right bit
I’m having the same problem. I can’t find the meta widget plugin my wp-content/plugins folder.
Whenever I edit the widget.php file in my wp-incudes folder the changes never take.
What am I doing wrong?
Can someone who knows how to edit the widget plugin tell us where the widget plugin to edit is located as what epicalex is talking about?
Thanks!
I found it in the wp-includes directory.
Thanks, rfrye. I finally widgetized my theme, and was left with this one question which is now answered. Theme working perfectly! Thanks!
Thanks to this post, I now know why my theme’s sidebar.php edits made no difference at all.
Modifying the wp-includes/widgets.php file was the ticket.
Thanks!
hi, my meta content shows these few links:
Site Admin
Logout
Entries RSS
Comments RSS
WordPress.org
how can i edit them and delete the last 3 links to show only “site admin” and “login”?
pls help… i am newbie and dont know html much… 🙂
If you are using the Meta widget you would have to edit wp-includes/widgets.php. If you are using widgets and don’t want to modify the core, then you could use a PHPexec widget and display just what you want.
If your are NOT using widgets, then that stuff might be displayed by your theme’s sidebar.php file.
Resources:
Stepping into Templates
Stepping into Template Tags
Template Hierarchy
Editing Files
Otto’s execPHP widget
I put the wp-includes/widgets.php in notepad and did a find for meta and it didn’t find it. Sort of leaves me at a loss but it is way beyond me.
hihi,
i just saw some other related posts and figured it out..
its just too troublesome to edit the current meta widget.
i just need to install the execPHP widget, and write the necessary meta content that i want to show on my site. then i take away the meta widget and use the execPHP widget instead.. thus it makes the task more easy..
this is my 1st blog:
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🙂
I have no wp-includes/widgets.php. What gives? The only widgets.php is in wp-admin…and I can’t figure out how to add or remove links in it, there’s too much going on and no obvious place to slot in a link. Please help!
I have done that ( modify the widgets.php ) so that it can only show the login. But when I go back to my site, i was getting error message on line 466.
