Meta section on wordpress

Hey guys, what is the meta section for on wordpress? On my site i have a little heading called meta, then i have some links...site admin, logout, valid xhtml ect and i was wondering what are these? If they were normal links...shouldn't they be under the blogroll section?
thanks

 

u answered your own question really

the meta section usually contains stuff like login/register link, valid html/css links, wp-admin and that.

blogroll links are for links to external sites.

 

so theres not much point in having a meta section if all the links are internal ones? I may as well get rid of it then, i thought it may have something to do with meta tags but obviously not. thanks

 

Yes, remove the Meta part from your sidebar. You don't really need it.

 

depends if you want ppl to be able to register or not

 

It's always a good idea to keep the area around. If you don't like META, call it something else but you need a place to put links such as login, RSS stuff, etc.

 

But if u have user registration policy..then put the logout and registration link in the pages navigation...

 

I guess if you really don't want to burn up the real estate in the sidebar with the META area, you could trun your RSS link into a button and/or move it somewhere else. If you don't need people to register, and you're the only one who logs in then you can put a link in the footer or remove it altogether. (One of my blogs I didn't have a link to the dashboard and it was a pain in the butt)

Maybe and "edit" link at the post is a good spot for the link to the dashboard.

 

I just type in my URL with wp-admin to log in.
If you don't allow users to register, it's better to remove the meta section.