Deleting the word 'by' from a post

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  nerss · Member · Sep 8, 2015 at 6:40 pm

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  Short question: How do I delete the ‘by’ in the author/date/time line at the top of a post?

  Longer response: Thanks to this fantastic forum, I’ve learned and implemented quite a few CSS tricks! Here’s what I have so far regarding the front post:

  .entry-date {
  	display: none;
  }
  
  .author {
  	display: none;
  }

  The only thing on my front post that hasn’t been removed is the word ‘by’, which I thought would be tied to the Authorship somehow.
  Any way I could remove or change the font color of the word ‘by’ so that it is not visible?

  Side note: I’m using the Eighties Theme.

  Thank you!

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  nerss · Member · Sep 8, 2015 at 6:42 pm

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  Whoops! The blog I need help with is: marthomaweddings.com

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 8, 2015 at 10:37 pm

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  Hi, change the selector on this rule in your custom CSS

  .author {
      display: none;
  }

  so that it looks like the below.

  .entry-meta .byline {
      display: none;
  }

  What we are doing with the above is hiding the parent .byline span of .author. The parent is what contains the “by”. Since it is a parent element, it also hides all child elements and makes the author name go away also.

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  nerss · Member · Sep 9, 2015 at 2:11 pm

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  Got it, thank you very much!!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 9, 2015 at 5:57 pm

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  You are welcome.