Hello!
Remove categories line
Are you using categories at all? If you don’t want the category to display on the post aggregate page or the single post page, one option would be to simply uncheck the categories on each post and the “categories line” will be removed. Though if you need to maintain your post’s categories for some reason, let me know and I will see if I can help to remove that line in the code of your theme.
Remove tags and author info
First create a child theme. Then copy single.php from your parent theme into your child theme. Remove lines 34 and 42–44 in this new copy of single.php.
Related articles
On Longform’s demo site, it is showing large images and text for related articles so it looks like this style is intentional. You can use some custom CSS to make changes, but if you’d like to remove the related articles altogether, remove line 47 in single.php (in your child theme).
Hope that helps! Let me know if anything doesn’t make sense.
Thanks but I will be posting hundreds of stories so at one point I need a drop down list so visitors can choose a category. What I do not want is the category to be displayed on the archive or single pages along with the number of comments. It’s very distracting and ugly.
So its just not displaying this line. Thanks
I see. Try this:
Remove categories line from heading on single post
- Copy header.php to your child theme
- In the new header.php file remove all the if statements that are producing the category line
Remove categories line on archive and aggregate post pages
The content- php files correspond to the post format. Copy the corresponding php files for the formats you will be using into your child theme and again remove the if statements that are producing the category line.
Thanks. I finally managed to do this using css.