Remove date from Post loop

Forgot to mention details of my install –
Wordpress 4.0
Theme – WP Knowledge Base Theme
Other Plugins –
1. Theme My Login
2. BuddyPress
3. bbPress
4. Members
5. myCRED

My Plugin Settings –
How many days would you like to display the date? – 7 days

Raj,

Thanks for the kind words.

1. As far as removing the date from category pages, the blog home page, and any other “list of posts” type pages, my plugin doesn’t work for that. Most of the time in the case of a category page or home page, visitors want to know when the post was written. But on a more fundamental level, all of my attempts to remove it from those pages removed ALL dates, not just old dates.

2. For removing that pesky word “on” we need to wrap it within the same span as the date (or a separate span that gives us the ability to hide it).

Your theme lumps together “Posted on” into a span (with a class of “posted-on”), and then the time (class= entry-date) gets hidden, but not the “posted-on” class.

By way of disclaimer: if you don’t know what you are doing, it’s very easy to break your website by messing with php files. Don’t do anything unless you are comfortable that you will be able to get it back. Never edit php files from within the WP dashboard, because if you make a mistake you can’t get back in to fix it. I recommend using a text editor with FTP access.

The easiest way to fix this is to edit the template-tags.php file found at /inc/template-tags.php in your theme’s folder. The line you need to modify is line 238. Here’s what I would recommend replacing line 238 with:

printf( __( '<span class="posted-on"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-calendar"></i></span> Posted<span class="post-date"> on %1$s</span><span class="byline"> by %2$s</span>', 'ipt_kb' ),

Note that this change will be overridden by any theme updates, so keep this line of code handy to replace it again after the theme is updated.

Let me know if that helps.

Ben,

Thanks for a quick and detailed reply.

1. Regarding removing date from “list of posts” pages, I don’t mind removing all dates, not just old dates. I am trying to create a website which offers “notes” to students appearing for a competitive examination in Judicial services in India. 99% of the posts are pretty static (what I mean is that the time and date of publishing is irrelevant). So I don’t really mind removing the date from all posts in a category page or home page.

2. Thanks for the detailed explanation. I did exactly what you said and it worked out perfectly.

Thank you Ben once again for your time.

If you want to remove the dates from all posts on category pages, as well as the home page, that would best be done by modifying the theme files (or better yet, creating a child theme so that your edits are not overwritten by theme updates).

From there, you’d edit (or replicate in the case of a child theme) content.php and remove the call on line 13 for <?php ipt_kb_posted_on(); ?>, replacing it with what you’d like to have displayed in the meta section for each post.

Since the function ipt_kb_posted_on does some fancy php work to render the entire meta div (as opposed to just the date), you’ll need to understand what is going on there, or hire a competent developer to get that done for you.

Alternatively, you could modify line 42 of wp-old-post-date-remover.php in the plugin folder for WP Old Post Date Remover, and remove the && is_single() which would leave the remaining line to read:
if ( $difference >= $OPDRinput ) {

Keep in mind that any update I make to the plugin will overwrite that code, so you’ll have to go back and change that line again in that event (or don’t update the plugin). It doesn’t make sense for me to change that code for all other users of the plugin.

Also remember not to edit php files from the WP dashboard. Always ALWAYS via FTP.