Change WordPress Meta Widget

Want to change your meta links contained in a WordPress sidebar widget?

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[2.9] If you are trying to edit the meta data that appears in the sidebar of your WordPress blog, such as removing the RSS links, find this code in /includes/default-widgets.php file and remove/comment the unwanted lines.

This is what the original class looks like:

class WP_Widget_Meta extends WP_Widget {

	function WP_Widget_Meta() {
		$widget_ops = array('classname' => 'widget_meta', 'description' => __( "Log in/out, admin, feed and WordPress links") );
		$this->WP_Widget('meta', __('Meta'), $widget_ops);
	}

	function widget( $args, $instance ) {
		extract($args);
		$title = apply_filters('widget_title', empty($instance['title']) ? __('Meta') : $instance['title']);

		echo $before_widget;
		if ( $title )
			echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
?>
			<ul>
			<?php wp_register(); ?>
			<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
			<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php echo esc_attr(__('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 esc_attr(__('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 esc_attr(__('Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.')); ?>">WordPress.org</a></li>
			<?php wp_meta(); ?>
			</ul>
<?php
		echo $after_widget;
	}

And this is my modified one:

class WP_Widget_Meta extends WP_Widget {

	function WP_Widget_Meta() {
		$widget_ops = array('classname' => 'widget_meta', 'description' => __( "Log in/out, admin, feed and WordPress links") );
		$this->WP_Widget('meta', __('Meta'), $widget_ops);
	}

	function widget( $args, $instance ) {
		extract($args);
		$title = apply_filters('widget_title', empty($instance['title']) ? __('Meta') : $instance['title']);

		echo $before_widget;
		if ( $title )
			echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
?>
			<ul>
			<?php wp_register(); ?>
			<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
			<?php wp_meta(); ?>
			</ul>
<?php
		echo $after_widget;
	}

[Pre 2.9] If you are trying to edit the meta data that appears in the sidebar of your WordPress blog, such as removing the RSS links, find this code in /includes/widget.php file and remove the unwanted lines.

This is what the original looks like:

/**
 * Display meta widget.
 *
 * Displays log in/out, RSS feed links, etc.
 *
 * @since 2.2.0
 *
 * @param array $args Widget arguments.
 */
function wp_widget_meta($args) {
	extract($args);
	$options = get_option('widget_meta');
	$title = empty($options['title']) ? __('Meta') : apply_filters('widget_title', $options['title']);
?>
		<?php echo $before_widget; ?>
			<?php echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; ?>
			<ul>
			<?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>
			<?php wp_meta(); ?>
			</ul>
		<?php echo $after_widget; ?>
<?php
}

And this is my modified one:

/**
 * Display meta widget.
 *
 * Displays log in/out, RSS feed links, etc.
 *
 * @since 2.2.0
 *
 * @param array $args Widget arguments.
 */
function wp_widget_meta($args) {
	extract($args);
	$options = get_option('widget_meta');
	$title = empty($options['title']) ? __('Meta') : apply_filters('widget_title', $options['title']);?>
		<?php echo $before_widget; ?>
			<?php echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; ?>
			<ul>
			<?php wp_register(); ?>
			<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
			<?php wp_meta(); ?>
			</ul>
		<?php echo $after_widget; ?>
<?php
}