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Quick question about Wordpress

by Instantfruit
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Hi Guys

I`m setting up my first Wordpress niche site.

Each of my pages/posts has "Be the first to comment" "Post by Admin" "Tags" etc underneath them

How do I get rid of that?!

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author rsseosolution
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    • Profile picture of the author Instantfruit
      Originally Posted by rsseosolution View Post

      pm me. i will help you
      I`m such a Noob, I cant PM anyone! /o\


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  • Profile picture of the author Sire
    Originally Posted by Instantfruit View Post

    Hi Guys

    I`m setting up my first Wordpress niche site.

    Each of my pages/posts has "Be the first to comment" "Post by Admin" "Tags" etc underneath them

    How do I get rid of that?!

    Thanks
    Your best bet is to go into the dashboard and delete both the post and the page.

    I would also change your 'admin' name to something else as this would make your blog less prone to hacking
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    • Profile picture of the author erbuc
      You can check to see if you have a file in your theme called "comments.php". From your Dashboard, select Appearance, then click on Editor.

      On the right hand side click the file name called "comments.php" if it is there.

      If you know a little about HTML you should see where these messages are and you can change them to whatever you want.

      Let me know how it goes.
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    • Profile picture of the author tpw
      Originally Posted by Sire View Post

      Your best bet is to go into the dashboard and delete both the post and the page.

      I would also change your 'admin' name to something else as this would make your blog less prone to hacking

      You have proven that people are still willing to answer the questions that were never asked and ignore the questions that were asked.

      Blah humbug!


      Originally Posted by sterndal View Post

      well, if the author of theme designed it that way then perhaps you must not delete that out of respect?
      No!!

      Themes are supposed to be customizable to the needs of the blogger, not the ego of the theme designer.

      That is why WordPress has a built-in theme editor!
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  • Profile picture of the author Instantfruit
    Thanks

    I`ve managed to remove the comments

    but still, each page/article has a little box underneath saying "Post by whoever, 28th June 2011"

    Still cant find away to get rid of that!
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    • Profile picture of the author erbuc
      That sounds like the theme is using an INCLUDE statement to a file called meta.php. It is probably in your theme directory in a directory called "/inc/".

      PHP Code:
      <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/inc/meta.php' ); ?>
      You should be able to simply go into the "single.php" and "page.php" files and remove the line that has the INCLUDE statement.
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    • Profile picture of the author Sire
      Originally Posted by Instantfruit View Post

      Thanks

      I`ve managed to remove the comments

      but still, each page/article has a little box underneath saying "Post by whoever, 28th June 2011"

      Still cant find away to get rid of that!
      From within the dashboard click on post and then when the page loads you can delete the offending post by clicking the trash link under the post. Do the same with your page.
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      • Profile picture of the author erbuc
        Originally Posted by Sire View Post

        From within the dashboard click on post and then when the page loads you can delete the offending post by clicking the trash link under the post. Do the same with your page.
        This will delete the meta data but will also delete the page along with it.
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        • Profile picture of the author Sire
          Originally Posted by erbuc View Post

          This will delete the meta data but will also delete the page along with it.
          Yep, and seeing as how it's the default page that you get when installing WP I think there's nothing wrong with doing that.
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          • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
            Originally Posted by Sire View Post

            I think there's nothing wrong with doing that.
            Actually, everything is wrong with that (i.e. with your advice).

            The OP does NOT want to remove the posts or Pages - just wants to remove certain elements displayed on them.

            Everything in a WP post or Page is displayed by the the so-called Template Tags - small code snippets that activate functions defined in the core WP files.

            Post title, content, date, author... you name it: everything is displayed (i.e. called up from the database) by these template tags.

            The proper way to deal with the issue is to edit the template files (e.g. index.php. page.php, single.php etc.) and comment out [//] or remove those tags you don't need.
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrick
    This is just a 20 second job. There is no need to do so many theme edits.

    Just see which class or id that particular text is through firebug and paste this into your style.css

    {display:none;}

    before that of course put the div id or the class name.

    for example

    #meta {display: none;}
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  • Profile picture of the author sterndal
    well, if the author of theme designed it that way then perhaps you must not delete that out of respect?

    in my case i own a premium theme so i can modify it according to my wants

    but if you really want to have those removed, you will need access to the theme's template

    like FTP or Cpanel

    hope this helps
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