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1. fersken
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I need to write some posts without date and time.

   I am aware of the date-exclusion plugin. But that would change all my posts.

   Is there any way to turn off poststamps for a single post?

   Hope you can help.

2. doodlebee
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   No, you can't do that, but you can keep them from being visible. Just edit the stuff in your index.php file. I don't know what your theme is, but you need to look for something like <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> - that's what displays the date.

3. fersken
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks, doodlebee.

   One question though - editing the index.php would effect all my posts, right?

   Alternatively I could write some pagechilds. But how do I keep them from showing up in the menu?

   I use the Orange theme from Themeporter.

4. doodlebee
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   yes, it will.

   You don't need to write "pagchilds". If you just want it to not appear for *one* post, then just specify that single post ID:

   <?php if (is_post('4')) { } else { ?>
    // code for displaying date here
   } ?>

   "4" being the ID # of the post in question. That will only work for the one single post, though.

5. fersken
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Perfect. Thanks!

6. fersken
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Just a thought...

   Dark winternights waiting around the corner, so if someone could make a plugin allowing you to disable date and time for single posts...

7. Chris_K
   Administrator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Is this all about not showing certain posts on the front page?

   Why not just use a category excluder plugin?

8. fersken
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Oh but... I had no idea it existed.

   It does the job. The post don't show up in the calender or in the archives. Brilliant.

   Thanks.

9. whooami
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   another thought -- why wouldn't have writing a page worked?

   Just a thought.. ive never tried it.

10. doodlebee
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I was wondering the same thing as you two - but I let it slide!

11. fersken
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    (-: Yearh, I tried that once...

    Because the pages/pagechilds turns up in my navigation, and I dont want that.

12. doodlebee
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    But you can leave that out, easily. If you don't want the pages/page links to show up, then don't put them in your theme. If you don't want *certain* pages to show up, then exclude them:

    <?php wp_list_pages('exclude=1,2'); ?>

    That's it.

    EDIT: shoot, or is it *include* the ones you want to show? I always forget. It's one or the other anyway.

13. joemad
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I do not want to have a date on my sticky post.
    I tried to place...

    <?php if (is_post('4')) { } else { ?>
     // code for displaying date here
    } ?>

    into this area of my theme index.php...
    

    <div class="contentdate">
    
    	<h3><?php the_time('M'); ?></h3>
    
    	<h4><?php the_time('j'); ?></h4>
    
    <?php if (is_post('4')) { } else { ?>
     // code for displaying date here
    } ?>
    	</div>

    This but did not work (i got errors)

14. Rove
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Well, you could also use a custom field for this. You would just have to write some php code to not display the date and time if that particular field is present with a post.

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