Steps required to change the Meta Tag link in WordPress

Steps required to change the Meta Tag link in WordPress

1. Open File Manager and and locate the following file :

/wp-includes/default-widgets.php

First save this file at your computer so that if anything goes wrong, you are able to upload this original file.  Make habit of saving the original file, so that after editing, if  anything goes wrong, you are able to recover.  I normally keep the original file at the server itself by renaming the same. I just put -orig to original file name to rename it and upload the edited file with original name.

Now open the file default-widgets.php for editing purpose and go to line 296 and make the following changes :

<?php wp_register(); ?>

<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>

<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=”http://wordpress.org/” title=”<?php echo esc_attr(__(‘Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.’)); ?>”>WordPress.org</a></li>

<?php wp_meta(); ?>

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