Title: Remove author byline
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Remove author byline

 *  Resolved [CompassGD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/compassgd/)
 * (@compassgd)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-byline/)
 * I would like to remove the author’s byline from the blog posts. I am assuming
   it would be in the entry-author.php but I do not know enough PHP to remove it
   without risking breaking something else. [ rapidcitycounselor.com/blog/](http://rapidcitycounselor.com/blog/)
 *     ```
       <?php
       /**
        * @package Make
        */
   
       $author_key    = 'layout-' . ttfmake_get_view() . '-post-author';
       $author_option = ttfmake_sanitize_choice( get_theme_mod( $author_key, ttfmake_get_default( $author_key ) ), $author_key );
       ?>
   
       <?php if ( 'none' !== $author_option ) : ?>
       <div class="entry-author">
       	<?php if ( 'avatar' === $author_option ) : ?>
       	<div class="entry-author-avatar">
       		<?php
       		printf(
       			'<a class="vcard" href="%1$s">%2$s</a>',
       			esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
       			get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) )
       		);
       		?>
       	</div>
       	<?php endif; ?>
       	<div class="entry-author-byline">
       		<?php
       		printf(
       			// Translators: this string is an attribution of a post author. e.g. by Ernest Hemingway
       			esc_html__( 'by %s', 'make' ),
       			sprintf(
       				'<a class="vcard fn" href="%1$s">%2$s</a>',
       				esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
       				esc_html( get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' ) )
       			)
       		);
       		?>
       	</div>
       	<?php if ( is_singular() && $author_bio = get_the_author_meta( 'description' ) ) : ?>
       	<div class="entry-author-bio">
       		<?php echo wpautop( ttfmake_sanitize_text( $author_bio ) ); ?>
       	</div>
       	<?php endif; ?>
       </div>
       <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   

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 *  [Melissa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emdashing/)
 * (@emdashing)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-byline/#post-6663525)
 * Hello!
 * It might be easier to just add some CSS to hide this.
 * Something like this should work:
 *     ```
       .entry-author { display: none; }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [CompassGD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/compassgd/)
 * (@compassgd)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-byline/#post-6663633)
 * Thank you, I just tried to delete the <div class=”entry-author-byline”>…</div
   > and it worked. Thanks.

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## Tags

 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)
 * [by-line](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/by-line/)
 * [theme foundry](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/theme-foundry/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [CompassGD](https://wordpress.org/support/users/compassgd/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-byline/#post-6663633)
 * Status: resolved