Title: Please Help!
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Please Help!

 *  [Female Activation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/female-activation/)
 * (@female-activation)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-159/)
 * I am using the theme “A little touch of purple” and I am trying to figure out
   how to remove the time, date, tags, categories from my posts. I have searched,
   read and tried but I cant seem to figure out. PLEASE can you help me with a step
   by step instructions!!

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 *  [Christine Rondeau](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crondeau/)
 * (@crondeau)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-159/#post-2726366)
 * You need to edit the theme files to do this. These appear in multiple instances…
 * On line 43 of the index.php for example you’ll find this:
 *     ```
       <p class="postinfo">
       	<?php if ($altop_posts_author == "true") : ?> <?php echo _e('posted by&nbsp;', 'altop'); the_author(); ?> <?php endif ?>
   
       	<?php edit_post_link(__('Edit', 'altop'), ' &int; ', ' &int; '); ?> <br />
       	<?php the_tags(__('Tags:', 'altop') . ' ', ', ', '<br />'); ?>
       	<?php printf(__('Filed under: %s', 'altop'), get_the_category_list(', ')); ?>
       </p>
       ```
   
 * The lines
 *     ```
       <?php the_tags(__('Tags:', 'altop') . ' ', ', ', '<br />'); ?>
       	<?php printf(__('Filed under: %s', 'altop'), get_the_category_list(', ')); ?>
       ```
   
 * Display the tags and categories…
 * For the date, that’s on line 24
 *     ```
       <span class="postdate_day"><?php the_time(__('jS', 'altop')); ?></span><br />
       					<span class="postdate_month"><?php the_time(__('F Y', 'altop')); ?></span><br />
       ```
   
 * I would advise against removing the date. Blog posts with no dates are totally
   useless.
 *  Thread Starter [Female Activation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/female-activation/)
 * (@female-activation)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-159/#post-2726401)
 * Hi Christine
 * Thank you so much for the info and taking the time to respond. It ended up being
   a huge user error problem but it sorted itself out.
    One question: why do you
   feel that a blog without a date is totally useless?

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 * Last reply from: [Female Activation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/female-activation/)
 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-159/#post-2726401)
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