Hide Date, Category and Author on Product Page

These are controlled by your theme. The latest WooCommerce update made it so WC templates use the theme’s templates by default.

If you want it to go back to how it was before, you’ll need to create a child theme and declare WC theme support: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/wiki/Declaring-WooCommerce-support-in-themes

Else, use CSS to hide these things on product pages.

I’m not very savvy when it comes to coding and css etc. I am using a child theme, though.

These three items are not displayed on pages or posts on the site, so why are they showing in products ?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by markwebstar.

Please could someone offer some help with this problem ? Thanks !

I have also tried to declare WC support using

function mytheme_add_woocommerce_support() {
	add_theme_support( 'woocommerce' );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'mytheme_add_woocommerce_support' );

but this completely changes the shop pages by placing the products in the right hand column.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by markwebstar.

To hide the category, you can use this custom css:

/* hide category */
.product_meta {
  display: none;
}

Custom css can be entered at:
Dashboard > Appearance > Customise > Additional CSS

The dates and written by seem to be coming from the product short description.

Thanks for this – the category is not showing now.

I don’t know what to do about the info coming from the short description but hopefully someone from woocommerce will chip in …

Can you just not fill in the short description – leave it blank?

If that’s not an option in your setup, you can hide it with some more custom css:

.woocommerce-product-details__short-description {
  display: none;
}

Thanks for trying. I do need the short description, though I did do a test of leaving it blank & the author and time stamps were still visible.

Oh, I wasn’t looking in the right place. Try this:

time {
  display: none;
}
.author {
  display: none;
}

Yes !

That’s it – thank you very much @lorro

I had a slight variation to change for the author. Instead of .author I had to insert .entry-author:

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

Ugh none of these solutions are useful – why is the author ever shown in product pages? this should be off by default. Further, adding styles to hide the author does not exclude them from search engine indexes.