Remove Author but keep date in meta

[sandstar]

How can I remove (not display or hide) the “author” icon and username but keep the date in the meta information?

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[Jason Bobich]

Hello,

Outside of any kind of PHP code customization, the only way to remove it (and not just hide with CSS) would be to use our String Swap plugin. There’s an setting at the bottom of the plugin’s options page that allows you to put in a custom post meta structure, with some limited options.

[sandstar]

How would I hide it with CSS?

[Jason Bobich]

Inspect, determine a selector, and use display:none.

[sandstar]

I am using Firebug. However apparently I am determining the correct selector. This is what I have trieD:

.byline author vcard {
display: none;
}

.fa fa-user {
display: none;
}

Neither of which work.

Can you point me further in the right direction?

[Jason Bobich]

It looks like you’ve figured out that the element has classes byline, author, and vcard. So, any one of those classes will do. I would also preface with something specific to the meta data.

.entry-meta .author { display: none; }

And you probably want to also hide the extra separator.

.entry-meta .sep:first-of-type { display: none; }

It’ll help to brush up the basics of CSS and how a selector is constructed. It help you in making your customizations tremendously. There’s tons of helpful instruction and education available for free online for learning about CSS.

[sandstar]

Great, thanks for your help!

[Author]

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