Title: [Plugin: SidePosts Widget] SidePosts and Date Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # [Plugin: SidePosts Widget] SidePosts and Date * Resolved [bluebird2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluebird2/) * (@bluebird2) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/) * Is there any way to remove the date from SidePost? * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sideposts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sideposts/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Txanny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/txanny/) * (@txanny) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1035937) * By now the date and the posts format is hardcoded in the plugin. If you need to remove the date, you have to edit the plugin file and comment this lines: * ``` echo ''; the_date(); echo ' | '; the_time(); echo ''; ``` * These are lines 236 to 240 (For 1.4.2 version). Will consider this for a next version, but don’t want to complicate the plugin with lots of options. * Thread Starter [bluebird2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluebird2/) * (@bluebird2) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036008) * Thanks. * [Txanny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/txanny/) * (@txanny) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036014) * Just have to remember: If you update the polugin to a newest release, you will lose this changes. * Thread Starter [bluebird2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluebird2/) * (@bluebird2) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036091) * What lines should I comment out to remove “Read full post »” from the sidebar? I think this is not necessary since the title of the post is already a link. * Thread Starter [bluebird2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluebird2/) * (@bluebird2) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036092) * Never mind. I found it. I wish these features had an option page, or check-mark options within the widget. * Thanks for all the help. * [Txanny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/txanny/) * (@txanny) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036126) * About this. The development version (to be released as 1.5) now includes a filter for the date called ‘sideposts_date’. * To remove the date, just write a filter like this: * ``` function my_sideposts_date( $date ) { return ''; } add_filter('sideposts_date', 'my_sideposts_date'); ``` * Of course, I recommend not to write this on the plugin’s file, as it will be lost when updating. * Thread Starter [bluebird2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluebird2/) * (@bluebird2) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036127) * Excuse my lack of PHP knowledge, but where should I place this code? * [Txanny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/txanny/) * (@txanny) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036129) * Normally I set this in my functions.php file in the themes folder. Or just as a personal plugin with all my custom filters 😉 * To create a plugin to hold this is really simple, here the file: * ``` ``` * Just call the file how you want (I call it my-filters.php) and set it in the plugins folder. Activate it as a normal plugin. * With filters you have not to worry, if you deactivate the SidePosts plugin, this filter will no run, so you will broke nothing on your site 😉 * Thread Starter [bluebird2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluebird2/) * (@bluebird2) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036143) * Thanks. It worked perfectly. * Would you tell me what I should add there to remove RSS and “Read the full post” links? All I need is the title and the excerpt. * [chavahn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chavahn/) * (@chavahn) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036179) * Hi! I am in the same situation than bluebird2. I would like to remove the “Read full post” and the RSS icon from the widget. Actually I would like to keep only the title of the post and the thumbnail. How can I remove the excerpt? Thank you. * The plugin is amazing, thank you so much! * [wee-beastie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wee-beastie/) * (@wee-beastie) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036183) * Hello, I was able to achieve this by making some small edits to the widgets. php file. Bear in mind that I am no php guru, so proceed at your own risk: * I commented out lines 151 and 152 to get ride of the date. * ``` $date_string = ''. mysql2date(get_option('date_format'), $post->post_date) . ' | ' . get_the_time() .''; echo '
' . apply_filters($this->ID . '_date', $date_string); ``` * To get rid of the READ MORE link, I changed line 158 from this * ``` the_content('

' . __('Read more »', $this->ID) . '

'); ``` * to this * ``` the_content('','true',''); ``` * I hope this helps out. Someone may have a better suggestion, but this worked for me. * @ Dev: This is a great plugin! It seriously helped me provide the needed functionality to a client, which is huge. So thank you very much! * I think if you had the plugin generate classes and/or id’s for all of the key elements, that could make it easier for users to customize the appearance. For instance: span.sideposts_date is generated dynamically, so that makes it very easy for a user like me to get rid of that element if I don’t want it using CSS instead of messing with your code. * ``` span.sideposts_date {display:none} ``` * And it’s gone! Thanks again for the great plugin * [lilatovcocktail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lilatovcocktail/) * (@lilatovcocktail) * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036212) * Txanny, I created a filters file to remove the date just as you suggested post# 9, and I uploaded it to /public_html/wp-content/plugins/sideposts. But I’m not seeing a difference. Is there a step I missed? * Since we’re talking about options, I’d love to see the date, archive link and RSS button become optional. In my current use of the plugin (on [http://theagnonschool.org](http://theagnonschool.org)), none of that is needed right now and just creates clutter. * (Oh, and can you also make the plugin do my dishes and answer my email?) 😉 * [Txanny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/txanny/) * (@txanny) * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036215) * Because what I’ve shown in that post is how to write a plugin to do it, you have to upload the file to the plugins folder, and activate it as a regular plugin. You’ve wrote a custom plugin, and it will act as a plugin: Have to be uploaded to plugins folder and activate it on plugins page. * [lilatovcocktail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lilatovcocktail/) * (@lilatovcocktail) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036219) * Ah, of course. Thank you Txanny. * [club6](https://wordpress.org/support/users/club6/) * (@club6) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/#post-1036220) * Hello Txanny * Sorry to ask but could you kindly complete your “my custom filter” file so that your (great) plug-in doesn’t show the “readmore” link ? * Can I change the name of the “Archives” link. It’s in English and my readers are French. * Hope this is not too much to ask, thank you for your time & your nice work anyway Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 20 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘[Plugin: SidePosts Widget] SidePosts and Date’ is closed to new replies. * 20 replies * 9 participants * Last reply from: [Ira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irapasternack/) * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-sideposts-widget-sideposts-and-date/page/2/#post-1036251) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics