Hi Mimi,
Good question! The most reliable way to do this is through a child theme…then you can just swap the order around in the template file, without having to worry about losing your changes in an update. If you set up a child theme and need help making the swap in the code, let us know.
In theory, you could also do this in a slightly hacky way with some javascript, but that isn’t really ideal. 🙂
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Mimi
(@feedmi)
Hi Steven,
Thanks for your response! I was able to set up a child theme. Could you give me a little more guidance on how to swap the code? Sorry, I am a WordPress newbie.
Nice work!
Now if you copy single.php from the “kale” folder into your child theme folder, you can edit the new copy.
Around lines 36-43, you should see this code:
<div class="entry-header">
<?php if($kale_posts_meta_show == 1 && $kale_posts_date_show == 1) { ?>
<div class="entry-meta">
<div class="entry-date date updated"><?php the_date(); ?></div>
</div>
<?php } ?>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
</div>
Select that block of code and move it to under the following code, which was around lines 45-50:
<?php $title = get_the_title(); ?>
<?php if($title == '') { ?>
<h1 class="entry-title"><?php esc_html_e('Post ID: ', 'kale'); the_ID(); ?></h1>
<?php } else { ?>
<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php } ?>
So your final code should look like this:
<?php $title = get_the_title(); ?>
<?php if($title == '') { ?>
<h1 class="entry-title"><?php esc_html_e('Post ID: ', 'kale'); the_ID(); ?></h1>
<?php } else { ?>
<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
<?php } ?>
<div class="entry-header">
<?php if($kale_posts_meta_show == 1 && $kale_posts_date_show == 1) { ?>
<div class="entry-meta">
<div class="entry-date date updated"><?php the_date(); ?></div>
</div>
<?php } ?>
<div class="clearfix"></div>
</div>
That should do the trick…let us know if you run into any issues!
