Title: Hiding Post Category Button
Last modified: July 29, 2019

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# Hiding Post Category Button

 *  [lucasbabcock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasbabcock/)
 * (@lucasbabcock)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-post-category-button/)
 * Thank you, anyone, for your help. How do I hide the little red ribbons with the
   post category displayed on my post thumbnails? Thanks!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fhiding-post-category-button%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Emerson Maningo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codex-m/)
 * (@codex-m)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-post-category-button/#post-11779831)
 * You can hide it in different ways. It depends on what is given.
    - If your theme has an option or setting to hide , you can simply turn it off.
      I see that you are using a premium theme, so its better if you check that 
      this setting exist.
    - Or create a child theme out of the parent theme and then use the child theme
      to customize and remove the more link markup. You can do this by overriding
      the parent template that outputs it: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
    - Lastly if you don’t want to create child theme. Easiest is to hide via custom
      CSS in customizer:
    -     ```
          .main-content .more-link {
           display: none;
          }
          ```
      
 * Reference: [https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/](https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/)
   
   Feel free to tweak the CSS selector to target correct element.
 *  Thread Starter [lucasbabcock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucasbabcock/)
 * (@lucasbabcock)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-post-category-button/#post-11783213)
 * Thanks for the response! I did try checking with the theme, they sadly don’t 
   have a button. And that custom CSS for some reason doesn’t work. Where do you
   think I go from here? A child theme sounds pretty complicated. Thanks!
 *  [Emerson Maningo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codex-m/)
 * (@codex-m)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hiding-post-category-button/#post-11787561)
 * Your custom CSS needs to override the theme style.css. You can try again the 
   custom CSS below and add `!important` designation to the style:
 *     ```
       .main-content .more-link {
        display: none !important;
       }
       ```
   
 * I added important to the CSS to mean that it will rule over the style.css. But
   still the best way of doing this is inside a custom style.css inside your child
   theme. I recommend you should learn doing that and its pretty helpful to you 
   in the long term.
 * If that still doesn’t work, I could no longer think of other solutions. Maybe
   other volunteers here will assist. Thanks.

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