This is a quick follow up to our post Delete Meta Links in Your Blog Side Bar. In that article we told you to use the Word Press editor to search for a file called “sidebar.php” and then delete a string of code. There are some blog templates that do not have the string of code in the sidebar.php file, and require a little variation on this technique.
Blogs With Dual Side Bars
You may have a blog that looks like this:
To the right of the picture you can see two columns (although the type is small in the photo) that say ARCHIVES and META. It’s those META links that people usually want taken off the front page display. However, as noted above, if you try to go to sidebar.php you will see this string of code (or something similar):
<?php if ($pov_disfeat == “true”) { } else { ?>
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH.”/topside.php”);?>
<?php } ?>
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH.”/left.php”);?>
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH.”/right.php”);?>
To get rid of the meta links in this instance you need to delete the string of code <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH.”/right.php”);?>. Note, if your meta links were showing up on the left or topside, you would delete that line instead. Once you delete this line, the meta links will no longer appear because you have eliminated the code that calls them to the sidebar.
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