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1. diwireless.org
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   hi all reall easy one. where do I go to edit my post meta data. There is a WordPress guide on how to change it http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Meta_Data_Section but nowhere does it say where to find the code to change???

   I have tried looking through the style sheet and my single post php and can't make it work???

   Please help.

2. @mercime
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   where do I go to edit my post meta data.

   Edit post meta data in Post Panel in backend - that is, if you want to change/add tags, categories, date, time, author, etc.

3. diwireless.org
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   thanks mercrime but I am not sure what you mean. where do I find the 'post panel' let alone the 'backend' of it.

   Can you please elabotate if possible?

4. @mercime
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Go to Dashboard - Posts - Edit - choose the post you want to change meta for.

5. diwireless.org
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   sorry but what I want to do is not as simple as this. If you have a look at my site http://www.diwireless.org I want to get rid of the 'Edit' link in my meta data and want to make the time and date bold.

   If I go in the front end as you suggested the only option for editing metadat is turing the comments on or off which you can see I did on test post#2

   So still no idea how to edit the meta data as descrobed above. Have tried playing with my:

   stylesheet (style.css)
   single post (single.php)

   and just about every other theme file but NOTHING I do alters the look of the post meda data...

6. diwireless.org
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   To anyone looking at this as I said above wordpress casually tell you how to edit your post meta data here:

   But where oh WHERE do I find this code to edit????????

7. diwireless.org
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I am starting to think my theme just won't allow me to edit it in any way but that just seems stupid.

8. @mercime
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Did not get your gist at the start. So here goes...

   get rid of the 'Edit' link in my meta data

   The "Edit" link only shows up when you're logged in. Online visitors don't see it. But if you still want to delete, it's in your theme's single.php - look for <div class="postmetadata">, a few lines below that, delete <?php edit_post_link('Edit',' ',''); ?>

   make the time and date bold.

   in same div, add before and after the tags
   <strong><?php the_date('') ?> <?php the_time('') ?></strong>
   Just for good measure (in case there was a reset at the beginning) place this at bottom of your style.css
   strong { font-weight: bold; }

9. Q Master
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Is there function to update/add metadata ? I want to do that from post screen.

   I can build those updates/inserts from scratch but I wonder if there are such functions already defined.

   Thanks!
   Q

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