How do I remove Author and Date from each section of my Portfolio?

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  angelastinnett · Member · Aug 15, 2014 at 2:59 am

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  How do I remove Author and Date from each section of my Portfolio? Thx!
  I’m a newbie so I can’t do it through html/css.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  rachelmcr · Member · Aug 15, 2014 at 10:57 am

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  Hi Angela,

  Since you’ve switched over to the Illustratr theme, you won’t see the author and date listed in your portfolio. (Each theme is designed a little differently in that sense, and Illustratr leaves those out.) You should be all set with this, but let me know if you still have questions about it!

  If you’re up for learning a little CSS, we have some tips for getting started:

  • CSS Basics
  • Editing CSS
  • How to Find Your Theme’s CSS

  CSS gives you a lot of options for customizing your theme beyond what’s built in to WordPress.com and theme options. And if you have CSS questions, our expert staff and volunteers can offer guidance in the CSS Customization forum:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

  If you’d like to customize your site with CSS but you’d rather not deal with the code yourself, you can also get help here: Request Theme Customization

  Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)

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  angelastinnett · Member · Aug 20, 2014 at 5:05 pm

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  Hi Rachel! I was trying to remove the author/date – long story short, I’m back to the theme I want, and still don’t know how to remove the author/date. Please help! You’re awesome! Thanks!

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  rachelmcr · Member · Aug 20, 2014 at 5:22 pm

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  Hi Angela,

  Sure thing! The Hatch theme uses the .entry-date class selector to control the date and the .byline class selector to control the author. (If the term “class selector” sounds cryptic, our CSS Basics page has an introduction to selectors and classes.)

  You can use this CSS to make those parts of the theme not display:

  .single .entry-date, .single .byline {
  display: none;
  }

  To add custom CSS, go to your My Blogs page and click the Customize link under the blog’s title. In the Customizer, open the CSS section and in the CSS editor there, you can paste in the CSS above.

  Let me know how that goes! If you have other customizations you’d like to make with CSS, I’d recommend posting them in our CSS Customization forum (where the real CSS experts hang out):

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

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  angelastinnett · Member · Aug 20, 2014 at 5:45 pm

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  I don’t have a ‘My Blogs” page. I don’t see it anywhere.

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  angelastinnett · Member · Aug 20, 2014 at 5:51 pm

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  Figured it out – thanks!!

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  rachelmcr · Member · Aug 20, 2014 at 5:55 pm

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  Woops, sorry! That’s your My Sites page. (It was renamed a bit ago and I clearly keep forgetting!)