WordPress 3 Documentation

The basic Loop hasn’t changed since 1.5

The documentation is out of date.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:

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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.

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.

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 instead.

The documentation is out of date.

No it isn’t. It also isn’t theme-specific.

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.