karizma23

Ok, I have figured this out. Apparently when I upgraded WP to 2.6.3, the changes I made to the Meta widget were over-written (to default). To fix it, I downloaded via FTP the widgets.php file found in the wp-includes directory. Within that widgets.php file, there is a function called wp_widget_meta and within that function are the links in question that are showing up on my blog. I’ve edited those links to my liking, and all is right in the world again.

On a separate note, the advice to create a custom theme based on the default is well-heeded and will be done. That way, future WP upgrades won’t keep causing this problem.

Thanks all.

I’m not sure where you’re seeing that “it still shows your previous code customizations” but double-check because you might not be seeing that in the theme which is being loaded. Maybe you’re seeing that on your harddrive, backup, or something.

I am seeing in the template editor within my WP Dashboard. I click on the “sidebar.php” link in the editor and scroll down toward the bottom where the code in question is (where I edited it originally to make the changes I wanted) and the very same code I put in there is still there. The code has not been replaced with some new “default” code as I would have expected. So these new links on my Sidebar under the “Meta” section (widget) are coming from somewhere else.

This has nothing to do with a local copy on my hard drive. This is definitely on the remote system hosting my WP blog. It’s visible through the Dashboard theme template editor.

If it makes a difference, the upgrade from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3 was performed via the Automatic Upgrade plugin widely available on the WP plugin site.

Ideas?

but it worked as you described what you want.

Actually it didn’t.

What I have now is

[Icon]
[Icon]
[Icon]

Instead of:

Facebook [Icon]
MySpace [Icon]
LinkedIn [Icon]

Which is what I originally was looking for.

I “guess” there’s some sort of template code that can fix this. Maybe someone else will take a look into this as it’s not yet working correctly.

Well, that sort of works – the .jpg file shows up now, but the link text itself does not show at all once you set an image file in advanced properties of the link. Therefore, it’s not showing up how I illustrated above.

Awesome, thank you for your help!

Figured this out after some additional sleuthing online. Sorry for the post. Thanks!