Making changes to Meta widge

Are there any current plugins that will help me to remove the RSS feeds and Comment feeds from this plug in? I do not use them. There are older Meta plugins that will but I don’t feel secure enough to use them.

Sorry to pester… but thank you for any help.
Charles

Hi @charles033151. I am not familiar with any plugins that will allow you to do that. In principle, you could “hide” the unwanted links using a little bit of CSS but it is not very “orthodox”.

I think that the simplest way to accomplish this would be to replace the current meta widget with a regular menu widget and add the links that you want to include manually.

Thank you Alvaro ! I really appreciate suggestion.

I’m afraid I’m totally clueless though of about how to go about doing that.
Would you be willing to provide me with any assistance ?

Thank you in advance.
Charles

Sure! You will want to follow these steps.

• Go to your Customizer under Appearance > Customize
• Look for the Menus tab and create a new menu, as explained here.
• Head to the Widgets section, insert a “Menu” widget and assign the menu you just created.

Let me know if that helps @charles033151!

I have spent that past few days reading and trying to understand the files you provided while trying to actually create a Meta block with only the links I want. Sadly I was unsuccessful. I messed up one time so bad I had to have my ISP restore my blog for me.

Those files are just too generalized to have been of help to me. I would have liked to have step-by-step instructions instead. It was like I was expected to already understand what they were saying and what it was I was supposed to do. Guess I’m just not that smart because I sure didn’t.

Anyway, thank you for trying to help though. I really do appreciate it.

Best regards,
Charles

I have spent that past few days reading and trying to understand the files you provided while trying to actually create a Meta block with only the links I want. Sadly I was unsuccessful.

Hi @carterville at which point are you having difficulty exactly, in summary you have to create a new menu for your site which you can then assign in the widget area. I can make short video which might help, I have a few questions though:

1. What kind of links or menu do you want to display in the widget area?
2. Have you managed to create this menu?
3. Can you please share a link to your site, this might help for reference.

Hello ??

To be honest the point at which I begin to have problems is almost at the very beginning:

I go to the Appearance, then Widgets, finally Meta.

I click on the little triangle and it drops down a list of Menu items:

Primary Sidebar
After Post Content
After Page Content
Before Main Content
Footer
(Now I’m assuming that these are asking where the Meta should go ??

I select Primary Sidebar and then get several more choices:

Block
Block
Block
(Each of the Blocks have own little snippets of code that don’t look like they would do what I would like … so I skipped them)

…After the last block comes:
Meta

If I select Meta it drops down a box for Title and below that Delete or Done.

That’s as far as I can go because I don’t know where to go or what to do from there.

I only want to list two things listed:

Site Admin
Register / Login / Logout

My site is https://blog.carterville.com

If you would like access… please let know how to contact you offline.

Very gratefully,
Charles

Hi @carterville

If you would like access… please let know how to contact you offline.

You shouldn’t share your login details on forums, even if someone asks.

If you want to add only two links, maybe you can try going another easier route that doesn’t include creating a new menu. Add a Text widget to the widget area instead of the Meta widget. You can add a title to the text widget, thereafter, you can add text within the block which you can link to the Login and Register pages.

• Login, you can use this link: https://blog.carterville.com/wp-login.php
• Register, you can use this link: https://blog.carterville.com/wp-login.php?action=register

Here is a short video that can help.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by thelmachido a11n.

Hi @thelmachido

I’m impressed. Thank you for reminding me to be more security conscious. Your video really help me as well. Thank you for that !!

I followed your instructions and got the Text Meta on my site. It was like you said it was a much easier process. !! Only one issue though… once I log in… I can’t log out via the Meta.

I tried adding a Logout link using https://blog.carterville.com/wp-logout.php but that just gives me a 404 error.

Hi there @carterville – please try this for the logout link:

https://blog.carterville.com/wp-login.php?action=logout

I’m glad Thelma’s video was helpful!

Hi @zoonini

I got the logout link added… Thank you for helping with that… I’ve got exactly what I was hoping for except for one new issue that arose… sorry if my problems seem to never end ??

When I click on the new logout link I now get this message:

You are attempting to log out of The Carterville Journal
Do you really want to?log out?

Can this added step be removed?

Hi, @charles033151. There is a way to skip the confirmation message as described here but I would suggest you keep it enabled as it can help prevent some types of CSRF attacks.

Hi @mrfoxtalbot

Please understand that I am not being difficult… it is just that I don’t understand the technical stuff very well. I read through the CSRF document and I understand the possible need for the added security measure that the confirmation message may provide.

My question is why does the standard META not require one, but the one I created does ?? Also when the document refers to HTTP does that also include HTTPS ?? Since my blog uses HTTPS does a possible CSRF attack still apply ??

As for the Logout…

<a href="<?php echo wp_logout_url('/redirect/url/goes/here') ?>">Log out</a>

What does the redirect url mean ??

If I swap echo wp_logout_url('/redirect/url/goes/here') with wp_loginout('/redirect/url/goes/here') what does that do ?? If I login does that mean the META will then display Logout and vice versa ??

Thank you so much for your patience with me.

My question is why does the standard META not require one, but the one I created does ??

Hi @carterville the custom logout option doesn’t have the nonce that is necessary to protect URLs and forms from getting misused by malicious hacks. The meta logout option does have this nonce. Feel free to read about nonces on this page: https://www.wpbeginner.com/glossary/nonce/

Your site can still fall victim to the CSRF attacks, especially if you disable the verification process during logout.

What does the redirect url mean ??

This is the URL you want the logout link to take the site visitor when they click on the logout link. This can be your site’s homepage

Hi @thelmachido,

Got it. Okay I’ll add my redirect and then it looks like I’ll be done.

I want to thank the three of you for working with me and patiently answering my questions. Ya’all make a great team ??

Charles