Update on how to edit the Meta links in WordPress
I wrote a post a short while back on how to edit the Meta links in WordPress to remove the references to Entries RSS, Comments RSS, etc. That post has now become relevant only to WordPress versions prior to WordPress 2.8.
The solution now for all WordPress 2.8 versions is to edit the default_widgets.php file which is in the wp-includes folder. Open up the widgets.php file with Notepad (or whatever other software you would normally use to edit php files). Find the following lines in the widget.php file:
<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>
And delete them. Afterwards make sure that you save this edited widgets.php file, and upload it into the wp-includes folder overwriting the original file. Note that the above example is shown only to remove the references to the Entries RSS and Comments RSS. If you want to also remove the reference to WordPress.Org, then you must also delete the following line:
<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>
