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What Does "Meta" mean? ... It's very disconcerting not knowing meanings of terms

  1. peteriward
    Member

    It's a potent 'turn-off' to non-techno types continually striking special terms that are not understood. I'm a novice in WordPress and finding it very difficult to understand navigating administration functions - I cannot even readily print Help/Support instructions to enable easy reference/study later on or when actually performing admin activities !!!... Can you suggest a more commonly understood term than "Meta" to appear in our blog's sidebar? ... thanks much!

    The blog I need help with is cofaretirees.wordpress.com.

  2. raincoaster
    Member

    "About the blog" or "Administration".

  3. peteriward
    Member

    ... both would be terrific ! ...

  4. thesacredpath
    Member

    You can actually change the title of the meta widget if you wish. Go to appearance > widgets, click on the right end of the blue meta widget title bar to open it and type in your own title, click "save" and when the spinning donut disappears, click the "close" link.

  5. peteriward
    Member

    ... Yeh, but what would I change it to ??? ... "Tools", "Special Functions", "Miscellaneous", "Admin", ??? ... btw, thanks for the directions on how to change "Meta" ...

  6. thesacredpath
    Member

    Whatever would make sense to you. Admin or Administration would see appropriate.

  7. peteriward
    Member

    ... okay I'll change it to Admin ... ... but if anyine reading this "chat" actually knows what "Meta" means I would still appreciate knowing what it means ??? ... tks to thesacredpath again, ... happy blogging to all !!! ...

  8. feartheseeds
    Member

    "Metadata (meta data, or sometimes metainformation) is "data about other data", of any sort in any media."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata

    When I use the widget I prefer "TCB".

  9. peteriward
    Member

    ... tks featherseeds, but did you have to introduce another mysterious term !! ... ... what does TCB stand for ??? ... also note when I tried to change Meta per thesacredpath advice I couldn't see how to change it, only "remove" and "close" options !!! ... help !!!

  10. thesacredpath
    Member

    When you open the meta widget, there should be a "title" field.

  11. thesacredpath
    Member

    Oops, Kubrick does not have the title field in the meta widget. I'm surprised. I though all widgets were standardized here.

  12. peteriward
    Member

    ... No, simply the msg "There are no options for this widget" ... or something to that effect ... Note the other widgets do have a title field ! ... anyway, now that I have some idea what "Meta" means at least I can explain it to others and move on ! ... tks again ! ...

  13. feartheseeds
    Member

    TCB, baby: Takin' Care of Business. It's an Elvis thing.

  14. peteriward
    Member

    ... sorry feartheseeds ... the transposition of the "r" was truly unintentional ... I just misread your 'screen' name too quickly ... ... can you tell me what TCB means now ??? ...

  15. peteriward
    Member

    ... got it ...

  16. feartheseeds
    Member

    Totally okay, I get that a lot... it's like a Rorschach test. "fear the seeds" was part of a college project... we had to market a product and mine was a religion: praise the grapefruit, fear the seeds.

  17. peteriward
    Member

    ... interesting ! ... tks, ...

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