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tkanotz
11 years ago · Last reply by Greg Priday 11 years ago

Hi there,
I’m trying to figure out how to hide the “posted on” text from the post date meta info. I’m using a Vantage Premium child theme, and have looked at the Vantage Premium functions.php and can’t find anything.
Thanks in advance!

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  1. Greg Priday Staff 11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi tkanotz

    One very easy way to handle this would be with some custom CSS.

    article.post .entry-header .entry-meta {
   display:none;
}

    Or you could filter this text using the vantage_posted_on filter.

    function vantage_child_filter_vantage_posted_on($code){
   return '';
}
add_filter('vantage_posted_on', 'vantage_child_filter_vantage_posted_on');

    Either of those should do the trick.

  2. tkanotz 11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Greg,
    Thanks for your response. I’m actually just trying to hide the “posted on” text that shows up before the date. I still want the date and year to show, so using display: none won’t work. I’m sure it’s somewhere in the PHP but I can’t identity which file I need to modify to remove the “posted on” text specifically. Does that make sense? Thx

  3. tkanotz 11 years, 6 months ago

    Here is what the html looks like from Firebug:

    Posted on

    I need to remove the “posted on” text between and

  4. Andrew Misplon Staff 11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi tkanotz

    Did you perhaps try Greg’s second solution. You’ need to paste that snippet into a functions.php file within a child theme after the opening

  5. tkanotz 11 years, 6 months ago

    I think that will do the same thing and remove the entire posted on date, where I just want to remove the “posted on” text that comes before the actual date/month/year.

  6. tkanotz 11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi again,
    I actually figured this out. I had to go in to the “template-tags.php” file and that’s where I could remove the “posted on” text. Now I have another issue…I want to abbreviate the month to the 3-letter abbreviations. Any ideas?

    • Greg Priday Staff 11 years, 6 months ago

      To start, a bit of a disclaimer. We can only point you in the right direction with these sorts of changes. We can’t actually help you with all the steps involved. We generally say suggest a feature instead of trying to make these changes yourself – https://siteorigin.com/suggest-feature/

      For this, you’ll probably want to copy the vantage_posted_on function to your child theme. You’ll need to edit what’s currently on line 150 of template-tags.php. You’ll need to change that ‘c’ – this accepts a PHP date string – http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php

  7. Greg Priday Staff 11 years, 6 months ago

    If you just want to get rid of the actual Posted On text, then you’d need to make a slight modification to the function I posted.

    function vantage_child_filter_vantage_posted_on($code){
	return str_replace('Posted on ', '', $code);
}
add_filter('vantage_posted_on', 'vantage_child_filter_vantage_posted_on');
  8. tkanotz 11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Greg,
    Thanks or letting me know about the “suggest a feature”. Will definitely use that down the road. Thanks also for the function modification. I also easily researched how to abbreviate the month so I’m all set there as well. Thx!

  9. tkanotz 11 years, 6 months ago

    One more question on this same subject. I would like to re-arrange the date info and have different CSS for the month, day and year. It seems that they are all lumped together in one style and I can’t determine how to separate them. Would this be a function issue or a php template issue? Thx

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