cosmocatalano

No ambiguity here—reinstall is the desired solution. But like I said, it’s not entirely within my ability to do so at the moment.

I had some more time to look around today and found a wp-apps.php file that was pretty much the same as wp-count.php. Googling that brought up this forum post which mentions a wp-configure.php (which I didn’t have) doing similar things.

I deleted wp-apps.php and my modified wp-count.php, and neither has returned since, so I’m breathing *slightly* easier. Still going to reinstall.

For anyone still curious, in 2.8, the code for the “meta” widget (and other default sidebar widgets) is stored in \wp-includes\default-widgets.php.

ryanweijian, if you delete the following lines (and only the following lines) from that file, the meta section will remain installed, but with the the RSS, Comment RSS, and WordPress Themes links removed:

<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>
			<li><a href="https://www.ads-software.com/" title="<?php echo esc_attr(__('Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.')); ?>">www.ads-software.com</a></li>

To hide the Meta section entirely, go into the Dashboard and select Appearance, and then Widgets. Then just drag the “Meta” section out of your sidebar, and into the “Available Widgets” box.

Let me know if that’s not clear and I can put together some screenshots. None of this involves/requires the MiniMeta plugin.

I had trouble trying to figure out how to put HTML into the dynamic sidebar, too, so I tossed together a quick plug-in to handle it: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/dynamic-sidebar-html-inserter/

Ben, I’m confused by what you mean by “drag and drop the HTML option on to your sidebar and insert the code”. I can’t find this option anywhere on my 2.7.1 install.

And to further clarify, widgets.php is located in /wp-includes/.