I can’t find the option to take out the meta links and categories on the page. i don’t want them on the side bar at all nor anywhere on the paige

Hi

There are two ways you can do this. The easy way is to add an empty text widget to the sidebar and the categories, links and meta will disappear automatically.

Alternatively you can edit the code. If you open the sidebar.php file from inside the theme folder you will see the following code

<div id="sidebar"><div class="advert-x" ><?php  include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/scripts/advert-two.php'); ?></div>

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar("Sidebar") ) : ?>

<h3 class="widget">Meta</h3>

<?php wp_register(); ?> <?php wp_loginout(); ?> <?php wp_meta(); ?>

<h3 class="widget">Links</h3><ul> <?php

wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&categorize=0'); ?> </ul><h3

class="widget">Categories</h3> <ul><?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=0&title_li='); ?></ul><?php endif;?><span style="white-space: pre;">	</span>

</div>

In there if you delete

<h3>Meta</h3><?php wp_register(); ?> <?php wp_loginout(); ?> <?php wp_meta(); ?>

That will delete the meta from the sidebar. If you also delete

<h3>Links</h3><ul> <?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&categorize=0'); ?> </ul>

That will delete the links list and then delete

<h3 class="widget">Categories</h3> <ul><?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=0&title_li='); ?></ul>

and that will delete the categories list. Hope that helps!