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

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
}