Problems With Stripping Out Part of Sidebar in WordPress

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Whenever I edit the ‘sidebar.php’ file (in an attempt to strip out the Blogroll & Meta sections of the side bar) the entire site breaks… 

<ul>

        <?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
            <?php wp_list_bookmarks(); ?>
            <li><h2>Meta</h2>
            <ul>
                <?php wp_register(); ?>
                <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
                <li><a href="http://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="http://gmpg.org/xfn/"><abbr title="XHTML Friends Network">XFN</abbr></a></li>

                <?php wp_meta(); ?>
            </ul>
            </li>

^^ That’s the bit I’m trying to strip out. Any ideas why it’s coming up as an error page every time I try?

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Thanks – Tara

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  1. I’ve guessing the removal of this line is the problem:

    <?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>

    You’re probably leaving the closing part of that if statement (which would a } ) on the page and it’s causing a syntax error.

    You’ll either want to remove the entire if statement or just the content inside of it.

    (Thanks to Emil for the edit suggestion)

  2. In the Admin section of WordPress goto Appearance -> Widgets
    There in the primary widget area you can drag & drop meta or which ever widget to be disabled to the Inactive widgets area so that the meta widget will be disappeared from the front page