Hello if you don’t want it through CSS the only way to change the comments in general I guess is by making your own template so that will include your own PHP calls.
Since you mention that your theme has a comments template you can search for the get_comment_date() function if it exists somewhere in your theme. That’s what returns the date for display.
If your theme is free maybe you can link it so we can take a look in case that might help.
More info here as well: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/partial-and-miscellaneous-template-files/comments/
Hey Xenos
Like I said there’s no such a code in the theme’s comments.php related to date (I could easily find and comment out the “posts date” from the theme’s template-tags.php but there’s no date code for comments in there either) I also tried looking for any dates through the theme files using Notepad C++ but I couldn’t find it anywhere else. it seems like this theme is getting the date directly from wp-includes/class-walker-comment.php…
here is the comments.php :
if ( post_password_required() ) {
return;
}
if ( have_comments() ) : ?>
<div id="comments" class="comments-area">
<?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>
<header class="comments-header">
<h2 class="comments-title">
<?php comments_number( '', esc_html__( 'One Comment', 'napoli' ), esc_html__( '% comments', 'napoli' ) );?>
</h2>
</header><!-- .comment-header -->
<?php the_comments_navigation(); ?>
<ol class="comment-list">
<?php
wp_list_comments( array(
'style' => 'ol',
'short_ping' => true,
'avatar_size' => 56,
) );
?>
</ol><!-- .comment-list -->
<?php the_comments_navigation(); ?>
<?php endif; // Check for have_comments(). ?>
<?php
// If comments are closed and there are comments, let's leave a little note, shall we?
if ( ! comments_open() && '0' != get_comments_number() && post_type_supports( get_post_type(), 'comments' ) ) :
?>
<p class="no-comments"><?php esc_html_e( 'Comments are closed.', 'napoli' ); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div><!-- #comments -->
<?php endif;
if ( comments_open() ) :
comment_form();
endif;
and here is the free theme:
https://wordpress.org/themes/napoli/
Because it’s missing a callback that’s why you can’t edit it.
BUT DO NOT FEAR ! I’m here to help you solve it.
Please add this function to your functions.php file ( prefered on your child theme )
function xkon_custom_comment($comment, $args, $depth) {
if ( 'div' === $args['style'] ) {
$tag = 'div';
$add_below = 'comment';
} else {
$tag = 'li';
$add_below = 'div-comment';
}
?>
<<?php echo $tag; ?> <?php comment_class( empty( $args['has_children'] ) ? '' : 'parent' ); ?> id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>">
<article id="div-comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>" class="comment-body">
<footer class="comment-meta">
<div class="comment-author vcard">
<?php
if ( 0 != $args['avatar_size'] ) {
echo get_avatar( $comment, $args['avatar_size'] );
}
printf( __( '<b class="fn">%s</b> <span class="says">says:</span>' ), get_comment_author_link() );
?>
</div>
<?php if ( '0' == $comment->comment_approved ) : ?>
<em class="comment-awaiting-moderation"><?php _e( 'Your comment is awaiting moderation.' ); ?></em>
<br />
<?php endif; ?>
<div class="comment-metadata">
<?php edit_comment_link( __( 'Edit' ), ' ', '' ); ?>
</div>
</footer>
<div class="comment-content">
<?php comment_text(); ?>
</div>
<div class="reply">
<?php
comment_reply_link(
array_merge(
$args,
array(
'add_below' => $add_below,
'depth' => $depth,
'max_depth' => $args['max_depth'],
)
)
);
?>
</div>
</article>
<?php
}
And on your comments.php replace the wp_list_comments function with this :
wp_list_comments( array(
'style' => 'ol',
'short_ping' => true,
'avatar_size' => 56,
'callback' => 'xkon_custom_comment',
) );
The result would be removing the date but leaving the Edit. Everything else is styled accordingly to the Napoli theme :).
I’ve tested it locally and it works, but as always I’d recommend you to get a backup first of the files that you are editing.
That was amazing ! thank you so much
No problem at all! Glad I could help 🙂
