Title: WordPress 3 Documentation
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress 3 Documentation

 *  [cheesedude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheesedude/)
 * (@cheesedude)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-documentation/)
 * All the documentation on wordpress.org seems to be horribly out of date. I am
   looking for documentation so I can create my own theme for WordPress 3.1.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop](http://codex.wordpress.org/The_Loop)
 * That documentation is for WordPress 1.5. Where is the documentation for version
   3? It is obvious things have changed since prior versions.
 * Thanks for your help. 🙂

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-documentation/#post-1962064)
 * The basic Loop hasn’t changed since 1.5
 *  Thread Starter [cheesedude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheesedude/)
 * (@cheesedude)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-documentation/#post-1962080)
 * The documentation is out of date.
 * Right now, I want to get rid of that “Meta” section with the log in/out, wordpress
   link, and other stuff. (Get rid of it in the code.) Nobody is logging in but 
   me. I don’t need it, don’t want it. But I **cannot** find a way to get rid of
   it.
 * I edited the default Twenty Ten sidebar.php theme file to get rid of it, but 
   it is still appearing. This is my Twenty Ten sidebar.php code right now:
 * _[Code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome).
   Please use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/)]_
 * Where is the Meta section coming from? I can find no documentation anywhere. 
   I can’t get rid of it.
 * Any help will be appreciated.
 *  Thread Starter [cheesedude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cheesedude/)
 * (@cheesedude)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-documentation/#post-1962081)
 * I got rid of the Meta section in the Admin panel. That was easy enough. Still,
   it was confusing because I could not find the code for it in the templates. My
   preference is always to eliminate something I don’t want in the code.
 * From what I can determine, the Meta widget code is generated in wp-includes/widgets.
   php. Meaning that the HTML code for it is not generated in the templates.
 *  [fonglh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fonglh/)
 * (@fonglh)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-documentation/#post-1962094)
 * The comment in the code tells you what’s happening.
 *     ```
       /* When we call the dynamic_sidebar() function, it'll spit out
       	 * the widgets for that widget area. If it instead returns false,
       	 * then the sidebar simply doesn't exist, so we'll hard-code in
       	 * some default sidebar stuff just in case.
       	 */
       	if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( 'primary-widget-area' ) ) : ?>
       ```
   
 * Doing it this way makes it much easier to edit the sidebar with the use of widgets.
 * This is specific to the theme, and another theme may do things differently. Since
   anyone can write themes for WordPress, it doesn’t make sense for theme documentation
   to be in the Codex. However, you can find documentation for all the functions
   used by the theme.
 * Do note that changes to WordPress core files or direct changes to the twenty 
   ten theme will be overwritten when you update. If you want to base your theme
   off twenty ten, look into [Child Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   instead.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-documentation/#post-1962204)
 * > The documentation is out of date.
 * No it isn’t. It also isn’t theme-specific.
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-3-documentation/#post-1962211)
 * > Still, it was confusing because I could not find the code for it in the templates.
   > My preference is always to eliminate something I don’t want in the code.
   > From what I can determine, the Meta widget code is generated in wp-includes/
   > widgets.php. Meaning that the HTML code for it is not generated in the templates.
 * That’s just where the Widget code is defined.
 * To control Widgets (a basic feature of WordPress):
 * Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets
 * From here, you can add Widgets to and/or remove Widgets from the current Theme’s
   defined dynamic sidebars.
 * This isn’t a code problem, or a documentation problem; rather, it is a WordPress
   UI learning-curve problem.

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