Remove categories field entirely
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I’d like to have the categories field not showing at all — currently it shows beneath every post. I’m using the Contempt theme. Thanks!
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To turn comments off for all pages and posts, you do that at settings > discussion.
To turn comments off for specific pages and posts, you do that from the post editor in the discussion module on a post-by-post and page-by-page basis.
If you want to remove all evidence of comments then you need CSS editing experience and the paid CSS upgrade, BUT with Contempt, all the stuff under the post is controlled from one place in the CSS, which means that tags, categories, the comments link and author information would all go away (all or nothing).
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Uncategorized is the default category. You can replace it with another default category but you cannot eliminate the display of the default category, except perhaps through purchasing a annually renewable CSS upgrade and doing the CSS editing. I hasten to add that I do not know if this can be accomplished by CSS editing. I do however, know that you cannot eliminate the display of the default category without it on any theme here.
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I should have noted that the first option of turning off comments site wide via settings > discussion would only effect new posts and pages. You would have to bulk edit the existing posts and pages and turn comments off on the older posts. The change at settings > discussion is not retroactive.
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Thanks for the confirmation re: Contempt. Hopefully I’ll remember this is a no go the next time the question is asked. :) -
Where in the world did I get comments? Sorry.
See my last paragraph as you cannot hide categories and/or tags only in Contempt.
Also realize that the way that wordpress is designed every post must have at least one category assigned to it. The software does not allow posts with no categories.
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@vancouverband: You can turn your tags into categories. Then the tag field will disappear.
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Thanks. Perhaps we should clarify something, in case vancouverband isn’t aware of it: tags and categories are exactly the same thing – for the global WP pages and for search engines they’re both tags.
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I thank you all for the replies. If you wouldn’t mind looking at http://clarinetcorner.wordpress.com I think he’s got the categories turned off. Perhaps I’m wrong? But if he has, I’d like to know how! :-)
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I don’t think so. All categories and tags in the post metadata will lead to the wordpress.COM global tags pages unless you set the blog to block search engines or set it to private.
In other words, a tag or category named “bug” would both lead to http://wordpress.com/tags/bug/ . That is what Panos was saying. They are treated the same as far as the search engines and wordpress.COM global tags pages are concerned.
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Now that I’ve studied his blog more carefully, I see that Sherman is using categories and has tagging turned off. I guess I’ll have to copy that — thanks!
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