Title: Modifying an existing template
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Modifying an existing template

 *  [slinky005](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slinky005/)
 * (@slinky005)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-an-existing-template/)
 * I am using a template that I bought this week. I know very little about code 
   which is why I use wordpress. I do not need the site to be a blog, just a straight
   forward website. The way the template is designed is that it uses blog posts 
   that connect to web pages internally. So what I want to do is delete: The date;
   blog name; and the tags entry where it displays the time the post was made.
    
   It seems that I will have to go into some of the code to do this so if anyone
   could guide me specifically it would be much appreciated.

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 *  [Michelle Langston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chellycat/)
 * (@chellycat)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-an-existing-template/#post-1665996)
 * what is the template that you purchased? If you could post a link to it that 
   would be great!
 * You don’t need to actually delete anything. You can just set up Pages for all
   of the pages you want to have in your site. Then under Settings > Reading Settings,
   set the front page to display a static page (one of the Pages you created).
 *  Thread Starter [slinky005](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slinky005/)
 * (@slinky005)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-an-existing-template/#post-1666081)
 * I can’t setup pages only for this site because of the way the template is designed.
   It’s a mixture of posts and pages so ultimately I will in fact have to have posts
   in the site.
    The front page is already set up as a static page.
 * [http://www.teentourtheatre.com](http://www.teentourtheatre.com)
 *  [Michelle Langston](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chellycat/)
 * (@chellycat)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-an-existing-template/#post-1666111)
 * It looks like the site is setup as regular WordPress Pages. I don’t see any posts,
   tags, categories, etc, anywhere…
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modifying-an-existing-template/#post-1666127)
 *     ```
       <?php the_time('f jS, Y'); ?>
       <?php the_date('f jS, Y'); ?>
       <?php the_tags(); ?>
       ```
   
 * the top 2 lines, either one, could control display of date. the bottom line does
   tags. Yours may look slightly different, but similar
 * delete them where you need them gone
 * Also, just having no title for your site isn’t ideal. It’s pretty important for
   SEO. moving it off screen with css is simple, and better for SEO. But I can’t
   suggest how to remove the title since you don’t have one for me to look at

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