I just needed to change this myself…. I created a child theme. here’s one if you need help with that. Then I copied the file twentysixteen/template-parts/content.php to my child theme, so: mychildtheme/template-parts/content.php
and modified the contents of that file to be:
<?php
/**
* The template part for displaying content
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Sixteen
* @since Twenty Sixteen 1.0
*/
?>
<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
<header class="entry-header">
<?php if ( is_sticky() && is_home() && ! is_paged() ) : ?>
<span class="sticky-post"><?php _e( 'Featured', 'twentysixteen' ); ?></span>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php the_title( sprintf( '<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="%s" rel="bookmark">', esc_url( get_permalink() ) ), '</a></h2>' ); ?>
</header><!-- .entry-header -->
<?php twentysixteen_post_thumbnail(); ?>
<div class="entry-content">
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-content -->
<footer class="entry-footer">
<?php twentysixteen_entry_meta(); ?>
<?php
edit_post_link(
sprintf(
/* translators: %s: Name of current post */
__( 'Edit<span class="screen-reader-text"> "%s"</span>', 'twentysixteen' ),
get_the_title()
),
'<span class="edit-link">',
'</span>'
);
?>
</footer><!-- .entry-footer -->
</article><!-- #post-## -->
