How to remove wordpress.org link in your wordpress 3 Meta that usually appears in your sidebar.
If you want to clean up your meta in the sidebar, mostly you also want to remove wordpress.org link.
You can however bookmark wordpress.org website before start to delete this link from your meta.
In this tutorial i am using Twenty Ten default theme, however it will work with another theme as well.
If you are still using older version which is 2.9.2, i have made two tutorials on how to edit this meta widget, and also to delete this link in wordpress file.
I have tested myself, and you can use mini meta plugin for this as well, see more here.
So here are the steps to delete this wordpress.org link permanently from wordpress 3.0 meta widget:
1. Backup quick your database.
2. Login to your cPanel, and click “File Manager” icon, hit “go”.
3. Find “wp-includes” folder and click once.
4. Look for “default-widgets.php”, select it, and click “Code Editor” above.
5. Go to line, 300, Remove this line of code:
<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>
6.Click “Save Changes” button in the top right of your screen.
Video Tutorial:
OMG, finally i`ve found a good tutorial on how to remove that bugger… 😀 Thanks!
Thanks for your nice comment, Andrei!
Glad you found it useful.
^^ SO GREAT. Thanks
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have been looking for this.
thanks. i love u. nick video.:)
Great information. Worked likes a charm. Thanks
You made my day, i’ve been fighting with this RSS links for whole morning!
Thanks a lot… I was looking for it already for 2-3 days… At last, I got the rightest solution. Thanks again…
Thanks so much for your help – you made my day 🙂
Thanks for the great post. This also works for the twentyeleven theme. Great work! Thanks for sharing this information.