Widgets not working in WP 2.5.1

  • This is probably a “stupid newbie” type question, and I’ve tried searching the forum, but any search term I can come up with is too general and yielding very little.

    This is my site: https://leisurelyhistorian.net/

    I’m working with WP 2.5.1. Default theme, just gussied up with a few jpgs. Minimal plugins: Askimet, Google Analytics, and WordPress Automatic Update.

    Basically, overall, nothing fancy in any way. Should just work out of the box.

    But no matter what I try, I can’t get the widget manager page to do anything. I want to get rid of the “meta” widget, for example. No dice. Move things around? Not happening. My sidebar is basically static.

    I thought the WP default theme was widget-friendly– is that not the case? Should I just roll up my sleeves and completely rewrite sidebar.php?

    There’s something I’m missing here, and I’m not sure what it is.
    I have no doubt that this is probably a dumb question, but please take pity on me and point me in the right direction!

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  • You don’t appear to be using any widgets and the default sidebar content is appearing instead. The meta is in your theme’s sidebar.php file. To get rid of this meta, make a backup copy of your sidebar.php (in case something goes wrong) and the delete the following code from sidebar.php:

    <li><h2>Meta</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
<li><a href="https://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional">Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a></li>
<li><a href="https://gmpg.org/xfn/"><abbr title="XHTML Friends Network">XFN</abbr></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ads-software.com/" title="Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">WordPress</a></li>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>
</ul>
</li>

    Another option is to enable the widgets you want, but not a meta one.

    Thread Starter retius

    (@retius)

    I’ll try that, thanks!

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