Wordpress help - Remove Unneeded stuff

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Hi Wordpress gurus,

I've got a Wordpress blog up for a niche. I wanted to put one article on the front page with a search box in it and then have all other posts on their own pages with the address looking like blahblahblah.com/this-is-a-post-title-example

I got the post address thing figured out fine, but I have a couple weird things that I'd like to get rid of:

1) at the top of the post is says "by ~ November 10th, 2008 (edit)" and I'd like that gone
2) It wants to stick numbers after the post like /43 and then under recent posts it just says 43. It like it to appear as above

Any ideas?

Thanks
Mike
#remove #stuff #unneeded #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
    Mike

    You need to select Design/Theme Editor
    Now select single post.php
    Delete following code:
    <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?>


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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Murphy
      Originally Posted by JustVisiting View Post

      Mike

      You need to select Design/Theme Editor
      Now select single post.php
      Delete following code:
      <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?>


      Cheers
      Hey JustVisiting, I don't have that line in my singlepost.php Is there somewhere else it could be?
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      • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
        Originally Posted by Mike Murphy View Post

        Hey JustVisiting, I don't have that line in my singlepost.php Is there somewhere else it could be?
        The file you need is single.php

        Delete following

        by <?php the_author() ?> ~ <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?>.

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  • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
    Mike

    Can I look at your site to figure out problem 2 ?
    Could be your permalink setting. Could you tell me the setting?
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  • Profile picture of the author LavelleC
    It'd probably help if you mention which WP theme you're
    using.

    Example:
    I use two different WP themes. One's a blog, one's more
    like a website. For the "Structure" theme site I just move,
    edit or delete:

    Code:
    <span class="author"> <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></span> <?php _e('on','structure'); ?>
    or

    Code:
    <span class="time"> <?php the_time(__('F jS, Y','structure')); ?></span>
    For the TechPress theme I move, edit, or delete:

    Code:
    <div class="postdate"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?>: <?php the_category(', ') ?></div>
    or

    Code:
    <?php edit_post_link('Edit', ' | ', ''); ?>
    Your's will likely be similar enough to recognize. You may
    need to edit the Single Post and Main Index Template. Hope
    this helps a bit.

    Lavelle C
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  • Profile picture of the author lacraiger
    did know IMers also know php
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Murphy
    My theme is called "blank2-column r-s" It's very stripped down and simple and I don't even see the strings you guys are giving me in the main index.php and singlepost.php or anywhere else actually

    Man, when does the WYSIWYG version of Wordpress come out ? :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
    Originally Posted by Mike Murphy View Post

    and then have all other posts on their own pages
    I think you might have answered your own question there. Use pages instead of posts. That's
    how I do it anyway. Check out this. All done with pages - but I've not turned on the option to name the pages. Just left it as numbers.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Murphy
      Ok, I've got the naming of the posts sorted but it still wants to throw a number on the end of one of the posts (the main one on my front page). Is that because I've made it a post rather than a page?

      I did try to switch it to a page a last night but I have an HTML search box at the top and when I make it a page, some goofy random search box winds up at the bottom as well.
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