• Registered: 04-05-2012 UTC
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Topic: Hide author and comment metadata

First, I want to compliment you on this fantastic theme. It's been a blast to create within.

Second, I know just enough to be dangerous, so please pardon my ignorance on this question... how do I keep the

  • From: Chicago
  • Registered: 07-30-2011 UTC
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Re: Hide author and comment metadata

Hi Deuce,

Your post was only half written, not sure why. Anyways you can, just close the comments on your pages and you're all set, no meta and no comments either.

See: http://screencast.com/t/MUj4W6qB and http://themeid.com/forum/topic/683/word … -settings/

Emil

deuce wrote:

First, I want to compliment you on this fantastic theme. It's been a blast to create within.

Second, I know just enough to be dangerous, so please pardon my ignorance on this question... how do I keep the

Emil Uzelac's Website

  • Registered: 04-05-2012 UTC
  • Posts: 13

Re: Hide author and comment metadata

That is so bizarre!

Not sure why it only captured part of what I wrote.

What I was asking about is how to hide all but the date information from posts while still allowing users to comment on posts.

I had also asked for your input regarding whether you thought it was a good idea to hide the comments information below the post title. My feeling is that users don't really care, but I wonder what you think.

Thanks again for all your hard work!

  • From: Chicago
  • Registered: 07-30-2011 UTC
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Re: Hide author and comment metadata

It all comes down to the nature and purpose of your site, there's nothing really set what people usually do. From my experience Businesses usually keep comments off while having the post meta on just so that visitors can see who wrote the post and when. Having authors and dates creates credential and that's very important from marketing point of view.

For example http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack … tax-guide/

http://cl.ly/2b0m303i0t3H0w220k2M/Screen%20Shot%202012-04-15%20at%203.41.22%20PM.png

Now if you're creating pages and close the comments there post meta and comments will not show, while on posts the post meta will remain even if the comments are closed.

At this moment the only way of removal is to add this in your style.css

.post-meta {
    display:none;
}

Emil


deuce wrote:

That is so bizarre!

Not sure why it only captured part of what I wrote.

What I was asking about is how to hide all but the date information from posts while still allowing users to comment on posts.

I had also asked for your input regarding whether you thought it was a good idea to hide the comments information below the post title. My feeling is that users don't really care, but I wonder what you think.

Thanks again for all your hard work!

Emil Uzelac's Website

  • Registered: 04-05-2012 UTC
  • Posts: 13

Re: Hide author and comment metadata

Thanks, Emil!

Ok, again, pardon my ignorance, but where in the style.css would I put that, and if I just wanted to turn off "author" and the number of comments, would I use different code?

Thanks again.

  • From: Chicago
  • Registered: 07-30-2011 UTC
  • Posts: 10,495

Re: Hide author and comment metadata

Correct, that would be in and for style.css. This will hide the entire post meta, including the comments and if you want to hide comment reply box you will need to disable comments on individual posts. Just make sure that changes are done in this form http://themeid.com/forum/topic/505/child-theme-example/

Emil

deuce wrote:

Thanks, Emil!

Ok, again, pardon my ignorance, but where in the style.css would I put that, and if I just wanted to turn off "author" and the number of comments, would I use different code?

Thanks again.

Emil Uzelac's Website

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Re: Hide author and comment metadata

Emil, you have a ton of patience. I am sorry, but I am apparently not putting that code in the correct place.

I added it to my style.css on the child theme, but it didn't change anything.

  • From: Chicago
  • Registered: 07-30-2011 UTC
  • Posts: 10,495

Re: Hide author and comment metadata

What's the URL please?

Emil

deuce wrote:

Emil, you have a ton of patience. I am sorry, but I am apparently not putting that code in the correct place.

I added it to my style.css on the child theme, but it didn't change anything.

Emil Uzelac's Website

  • Registered: 04-05-2012 UTC
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Re: Hide author and comment metadata

http://coverclash.com/clashes/sir-tom-j … -don-nino/



Emil wrote:

What's the URL please?

Emil

deuce wrote:

Emil, you have a ton of patience. I am sorry, but I am apparently not putting that code in the correct place.

I added it to my style.css on the child theme, but it didn't change anything.

  • From: Chicago
  • Registered: 07-30-2011 UTC
  • Posts: 10,495

Re: Hide author and comment metadata

Simply fix!

You have:

/* =Start from here :)

.post-meta {
    display:none;
}
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

and that is in headers area, that's why you didn't have any results, just move them below like this:

/* =Start from here :)
-------------------------------------------------------------- */
.post-meta {
    display:none;
}

And voila smile

Emil

deuce wrote:

http://coverclash.com/clashes/sir-tom-j … -don-nino/



Emil wrote:

What's the URL please?

Emil

deuce wrote:

Emil, you have a ton of patience. I am sorry, but I am apparently not putting that code in the correct place.

I added it to my style.css on the child theme, but it didn't change anything.

Emil Uzelac's Website