Editing Archive/Category Page

Look at Template Hierarchy.

Figure out what template displays those posts.

1. delete the text in that template
2. delete the_date (or the_time) code
3. remove the code with comments_popup_link

Please review these again:
Stepping Into Template Tags
Stepping Into Templates
Template Hierarchy

thanks. i found #1 and 3 but looked through all my files for template files for #2 and couldnt find it anywhere. there’s no standard place where this usually resides?

As an example look at the WordPress Default theme’s index.php for the_time.

i feel like its right here in this section of my index.php file:

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small>

				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
				</div>

			</div>

however, i removed the line that says <small><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> --></small> but that doesnt seem to ahve done the trick. so i’m stumped as to where else it could be???

Use https://wingrep.com and search all your theme files for that to find other instances of the_date or the_time.

thanks. i found it in my archive.php file and removed it.

<small><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></small>