Remove name and date from footer of posts

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    amustain · Member ·

    Hi, I need to remove the section of the footer on each of my posts that has my name and the date the post was published. It’s just above the tags at the bottom of each post and says, for example:
    “by Andrea on August, 2013”
    How do I alter the CSS to make sure this doesn’t appear at the bottom of my posts? I paid for the upgrade, and it’s really frustrating that getting to the CSS and changing it isn’t a little more obvious. I’m using the gridspace theme. Thank you!

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

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    mrdirby · Member ·

    Hi Amustain,

    Each theme is different because it is written by different people. I know it can be confusing. When I started learning CSS I was scratching my head a lot.

    I can’t see your posts because it’s set to private so I’m guessing here. Try pasting this css into your custom area. 

    footer left.fancy, footer left.authorname, footer left entry-date {
display: none;
}

    I’m worried that it will also hide the categories and tags below. Let me know if it works.

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    amustain · Member ·

    Hi there – thanks so much for the help! But unfortunately that doesn’t appear to actually change anything when I paste it into the style sheet..hmmm…
    I just changed the settings so the blog isn’t private anymore, so perhaps that way you can see what I mean?
    Here’s the url for an individual post:
    http://andreamustain.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/great-migrations-thrill-shock-at-nyc-premiere/

    The name and date is at the very bottom…

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    amustain · Member ·

    HI, I actually just discovered that the coding you sent removed all the tags, but didn’t remove the date…would love some advice! Thanks!

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    jcasta · Member ·

    From the looks of it would be a little tricky to just remove the by line because of the way the theme is structured.

    The CSS targeting would look a little messy but doable.

    A quick look for me: 

    span.authorname,
span.fancy,
time.entry-time {
    display: none;
}

    That will also remove the ‘by’, ‘on’, ‘tags’ and ‘categories’ text leaving only the links to the tags and categories. :)

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    mrdirby · Member ·

    OK let me try something else. This theme is tricky because it is using the same classes for all that information. Seems like it could be separated.

    Anyway.

    I forgot the period before entry date that is why it didn’t work.

    Try this:

    footer .left.fancy:nth-child(1), footer .left.fancy:nth-child(2), footer .left.authorname, footer .left .entry-date {
display: none;
}
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    mrdirby · Member ·

    @jcasta, I’m trying to use nth-child to target those first fancy class items. That way the categories and tags will still show. I’m also not sure if there might be other span tags with fancy class in the theme.

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    jcasta · Member ·

    @mrdirby, which is I why I said it would look a little messy. ;)

    From the looks of it those seem to be the only ones in the footer of the post.

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    amustain · Member ·

    Thanks so much to you both! @mrdirby, that last code you sent *almost* did the trick! It took out the date, but leaves in the “by Andrea on” in there. I wish I understood more about CSS. <sigh> I futzed around with that code, but just ended up screwing it up more. If you have any further thoughts, would love to hear them!

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    mrdirby · Member ·

    Can you put the code back that almost worked so I can see what it looks like?

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    amustain · Member ·

    footer .left.fancy:nth-child(1), footer .left.fancy:nth-child(2), footer .left.authorname, footer .left .entry-date {
    display: none;
    }

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    mrdirby · Member ·

    Sorry I meant in your custom css.

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    jcasta · Member ·

    Try: 

    span.authorname,
time.entry-date,
.fancy:nth-child(2n+1) {
    display: none;
}
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    amustain · Member ·

    Hey, @jcasta, you rock, that worked like a dream! Thanks a ton! I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. You guys were so helpful!

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    curatevibe · Member ·

    hey @jcasta , i just started my music blog yesterday and i was wondering if you can help me delete my footer as well. I’m new to this wordpress and don’t really know much about CSS, my site is http://www.curatevibe.com

    let me know what my options are if possible

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    mrdirby · Member ·

    @curatevibe All WordPress.com sites have the footer credit. And in fact, it is required to be displayed according to our terms of service: http://en.wordpress.com/tos/

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    jcasta · Member ·

    @amustain happy to help. No worries about not being CSS savvy, I was like that at one point. Don’t be afraid to experiment and explore; I mean how else do learn what not to do, right? ;)

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