HOW TO REMOVE DATES FROM BLOG POSTS?

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  collegesample · Member · Sep 15, 2011 at 10:39 pm

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  Thanks.

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 15, 2011 at 10:43 pm

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  You can’t as all post title include a date stamp and we cannot change permalink structure on free hosted WordPress.com blogs. See > Posts » Post Title and URL

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  collegesample · Member · Sep 15, 2011 at 10:45 pm

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  So get a non-free wordpress site & I can?

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 15, 2011 at 10:46 pm

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  If you’ ve got the tech skills, yes.

  Probably easier for you to stay here and just change themes.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 15, 2011 at 10:46 pm

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  I’ve also visited your blog and believe you will benefit from using the step by step learn WordPress.com tutorial. I believe you will also benefit from learning the differences between posts and pages.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 15, 2011 at 10:47 pm

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  @collegesample
  Would you care to tell us why this is an issue for you?

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  walksintruth · Member · Sep 16, 2011 at 1:58 am

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  Yes, if you use self-hosted WordPress you can change the permalink structure to remove the date using the instructions in WordPress How To Clean Up Title Permalink URLs.

  However, be aware that WordPress does NOT recommend doing so, claiming that it may cause performance issues in blogs with large databases. Others dispute this claim. See the details and links to additional information in that post.

  To answer timethief’s question, the reason logical thinkers would not want the dates in their posts is that makes the URLs more difficult to remember, find again and share. Some of us do not use blogs like diaries – we use them as reference resources and a fast way to share complex information. Who remembers what date is on each post?

  Having the dates in the URLs is also not as beneficial for SEO reasons, but the primary reason we remove them is to make the URLs easy to remember and locate again.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 16, 2011 at 4:26 am

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  Are you talking about removing the date on the post as it shows in the blog, or are you talking about removing the date from the permalink (URL) of the post?

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  timethief · Member · Sep 16, 2011 at 5:00 am

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  @thesacredpath
  Thumbs up! Much more clearly stated than my attempt above when I asked: “Would you care to tell us why this is an issue for you? ”

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 16, 2011 at 5:04 am

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  @TT, not a problem, and I just saw that @walksintruth was taking the thread in a hard turn toward permalinks and we weren’t clear on what the OP was wanting.

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  michiecat · Staff · Sep 19, 2011 at 11:44 pm

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  @collegesample, if hiding the dates from posts is what you want to do (e.g. people do not see a date when they view your posts), you can achieve this with CSS, available with the Custom Design upgrade.