Remove Author & Date from Wordpress Post/Page?

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xLucky7

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Hey,

So im trying to sell my products on my website with this plugin Easy Digital Downloads. Its working fine so far, however every product page has "Posted by Admin on X Date".

Anyway to remove this? If it matters im using a theme called Latte. I've tried different css codes, and even trying to find the line in the theme css where it adds the author/date but cant find it.

Anyone well versed in Wordpress/CSS thats able to lend a hand?
 
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xLucky7 said:
Hey,

So im trying to sell my products on my website with this plugin Easy Digital Downloads. Its working fine so far, however every product page has "Posted by Admin on X Date".

Anyway to remove this? If it matters im using a theme called Latte. I've tried different css codes, and even trying to find the line in the theme css where it adds the author/date but cant find it.

Anyone well versed in Wordpress/CSS thats able to lend a hand?
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Hello my friend, I hope I can help you.
https://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/how-to-remove-author-and-date-information-from-your-wordpress-posts
(None of these links or content belong to me or are related to me)
I hope some of them will be of your help.
 
I'm wondering about this too. I tried to remove it before, but was unsuccessful. Just curious, why do you want to remove it? Doesn't it make the content seem more fresh ?
 
It could be in your theme settings, check that. Also check Jetpack if you have it installed, that can add tons of info to posts and pages if left as default install.
 
I tried to remove date from post and I went from position number 12 to position 42 for my kw, but I never knew about Jetpack...anyway, I didn't see any benefit, perhaps cause I didn't know what I was doing...thanks for the jetpack hint..
 
klazeg said:
Hello my friend, I hope I can help you.

(None of these links or content belong to me or are related to me)
I hope some of them will be of your help.
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Ok first method in the first video didnt work. Second video didn't work at all.

JonasGreyHound said:
I'm wondering about this too. I tried to remove it before, but was unsuccessful. Just curious, why do you want to remove it? Doesn't it make the content seem more fresh ?
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Not posting content, im selling products. Doesnt make sense to have who posted it and when as its my website and because it doesnt matter.
 
Should be in the "customize" area of your theme. Look under blog and there will be an option to remove certain meta data.
 
Easy Digital Downloads uses the file archive-downloads.php as the page template. It creates this file automatically when you create products. If this file does not exist then EDD uses archive.php. Finally if there is no archive.php then it uses index.php.

You need to remove the Author/Date info from the file EDD is using but best to do it in all of these files.

If you are using EDD Sidebar widgets they have a Download Details widget and Download Author widget that let you customize what info is displayed. These widgets only work with the sidebar widget as it overrides the page template.

If this is not enough info or for more details depending on your setup you can go through their online documentation.

https://docs.easydigitaldownloads.com/
 
RRunner said:
Easy Digital Downloads uses the file archive-downloads.php as the page template. It creates this file automatically when you create products. If this file does not exist then EDD uses archive.php. Finally if there is no archive.php then it uses index.php.

You need to remove the Author/Date info from the file EDD is using but best to do it in all of these files.

If you are using EDD Sidebar widgets they have a Download Details widget and Download Author widget that let you customize what info is displayed. These widgets only work with the sidebar widget as it overrides the page template.

If this is not enough info or for more details depending on your setup you can go through their online documentation.

https://docs.easydigitaldownloads.com/
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Ok i see an archive.php file, do you know how would i find & remove the author/date info from it & the other files?
 
xLucky7 said:
Ok i see an archive.php file, do you know how would i find & remove the author/date info from it & the other files?
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No. I can usually figure that stuff out by hacking around the PHP files of most themes.

The thing is, developers implement this in different ways.

It could be hard coded in that file and you just remove it there or it could be inserted by a function call coded in a different file so you would need to find where the function is defined.

If you have any experience with wp files or hacking PHP it won't be hard.

This article gives some good examples but it really depends how they implemented it in your theme/plugin.

https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-remove-author-name-from-wordpress-posts/
 
You need to go straight into the theme file and edit it out. Be careful and make a backup, if you put the syntax wrong then your entire site may not work, if that happens then replace the edited file with the backup through FTP.
 
It's in the WordPress theme. Find it and disable it. If you can't do it,find someone in the hire a freelancer section to do it for you.
 
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