I am using a child theme. Can you tell me how to remove the information that is displayed underneath the post title. For example, my posts currently display the author, date, category, and leave a comment.

I would like to remove all of this and only display the post title.

If you click on the Screen Options tab in the upper right corner of the admin panel when you’re on a post/page, you can turn a lot these elements off if you don’t need them.

Let us know if that lets you accomplish what you’re setting out to do.

Thanks!

My apologies, I thought you were referring to the meta boxes in the admin area. Depending on the stack you’re using, you will need to go find the function for this in the stack specific functions file. You can find these at the following path in X:

/framework/functions/

Once you are here, open up the file corresponding to the Stack you are using. For example, if you are using the Integrity Stack, you will need to open integrity.php.

To continue on with the Integrity example, you would then need to find the x_integrity_entry_meta() function. Next, copy this function into the functions.php file of your child theme.

Once you have done that, you can edit this function as needed. The parts you’ll want to edit are originally on lines 166-175 of the integrity.php file. Simply remove the items you don’t want, and make sure to remove the corresponding elements from line 169 in the %1$s%2$s%3$s%4$s string. For example, if you wanted to remove the $author and $categories_list portions of this, your code would need to look something like the following:

if ( get_post_type() == 'page' ) {
  return;
} else {
  printf( '<p class="p-meta">%1$s%2$s</p>',
    $date,
    $comments
  );
}

Let us know if you need anything else.

Thanks!

Also concerned that once the date is gone, there will be a blank space on the featured posts at the very top of the page – using Ethos Main Demo 1 (http://theme.co/x/demo/ethos/1/)

Thank you!

Thank you for writing in!

Instead of that, please try adding the following code in your child theme’s functions.php file:

if ( ! function_exists( 'x_ethos_entry_meta' ) ) :
  function x_ethos_entry_meta() {

    $author = sprintf( ' by %s</span>',
      get_the_author()
    );

    $date = sprintf( '<span><time class="entry-date" datetime="%1$s">%2$s</time></span>',
      esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
      esc_html( get_the_date() )
    );

    if ( get_post_type() == 'x-portfolio' ) {
      if ( has_term( '', 'portfolio-category', NULL ) ) {
        $categories        = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), 'portfolio-category' );
        $separator         = ', ';
        $categories_output = '';
        foreach ( $categories as $category ) {
          $categories_output .= '<a href="'
                              . get_term_link( $category->slug, 'portfolio-category' )
                              . '" title="'
                              . esc_attr( sprintf( __( "View all posts in: &ldquo;%s&rdquo;", '__x__' ), $category->name ) )
                              . '"> '
                              . $category->name
                              . '</a>'
                              . $separator;
        }

        $categories_list = sprintf( '<span>In %s',
          trim( $categories_output, $separator )
        );
      } else {
        $categories_list = '';
      }
    } else {
      $categories        = get_the_category();
      $separator         = ', ';
      $categories_output = '';
      foreach ( $categories as $category ) {
        $categories_output .= '<a href="'
                            . get_category_link( $category->term_id )
                            . '" title="'
                            . esc_attr( sprintf( __( "View all posts in: &ldquo;%s&rdquo;", '__x__' ), $category->name ) )
                            . '"> '
                            . $category->name
                            . '</a>'
                            . $separator;
      }

      $categories_list = sprintf( '<span>In %s',
        trim( $categories_output, $separator )
      );
    }

    if ( comments_open() ) {
      $title  = get_the_title();
      $link   = get_comments_link();
      $number = get_comments_number();
      if ( $number == 0 ) {
        $comments = sprintf( '<span><a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" class="meta-comments">%3$s</a></span>',
          esc_url( $link ),
          esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Leave a comment on: &ldquo;%s&rdquo;', '__x__' ), $title ) ),
          __( 'Leave a Comment' , '__x__' )
        );
      } else if ( $number == 1 ) {
        $comments = sprintf( '<span><a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" class="meta-comments">%3$s</a></span>',
          esc_url( $link ),
          esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Leave a comment on: &ldquo;%s&rdquo;', '__x__' ), $title ) ),
          $number . ' ' . __( 'Comment' , '__x__' )
        );
      } else {
        $comments = sprintf( '<span><a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" class="meta-comments">%3$s</a></span>',
          esc_url( $link ),
          esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'Leave a comment on: &ldquo;%s&rdquo;', '__x__' ), $title ) ),
          $number . ' ' . __( 'Comments' , '__x__' )
        );
      }
    } else {
      $comments = '';
    }

    if ( x_does_not_need_entry_meta() ) {
      return;
    } else {
      printf( '<p class="p-meta">%1$s%2$s%3$s</p>',
        $categories_list,
        $author,
        // $date,
        $comments
      );
    }

  }
endif;

After that, copy the file wp-content/themes/x/framework/views/ethos/_post-slider and add in your child theme’s folder /framework/views/ethos/, open in a text editor and replace the following line of code (line no. 57):

<span class="featured-meta"><?php echo x_ethos_post_categories(); ?> / <?php echo get_the_date( 'F j, Y' ); ?></span>

With:

<span class="featured-meta"><?php echo x_ethos_post_categories(); ?></span>

Hope this helps. 🙂

Thank you.

Thank you – site’s almost complete and it looks great! Client is very happy.

Can you please provide URL of your site and wordpress & FTP access for us to check on your set-up.

Thank you

Thank you for writing in!

Upon checking, the code has been added and the site is opening just fine here. Would you mind confirming the issue again?

Regarding the date from post carousel, please try adding following CSS code under Custom > CSS in the Customizer:

.x-post-carousel-meta>span.entry-cover-date {
   display: none;
}

Cheers!