Title: Remove Author | Remove Comments
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Remove Author | Remove Comments

 *  Resolved [Samara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blouishhotmailcom/)
 * (@blouishhotmailcom)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/)
 * Hi guys I’m working on this site; [http://mrsdalrymple.com/](http://mrsdalrymple.com/)
   it’s WordPress 3.2.1 using the Brunelleschi theme.
 * I want to remove “by LONDONBOUND ” author text from each post. I’ve looked through
   the trees for code etc. But I’m not understanding A) where to find the index.
   php and also whenever I find an index.php it doesn’t have much if any code in
   it.
 * I want to remove the ability to comment on the actual pages. Again I don’t know
   where to find the page within the ftp and what code to add or remove.
 * Thanks for any help.

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 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276472)
 * You would have to navigate to the /wp-content/themes/”your theme name”/ and while
   each theme differs, it should be somewhere in there, not necessarily in index.
   php. You may need to edit loop.php, or single.php depending.
 * Other than that, you could hide this by editing your style.css file.
 * Below Line 963, add **display: none** to the .entry-meta block of CSS.
 *     ```
       .entry-meta {
       color: #899A21;
       font-size: 12px;
       display: none;
       }
       ```
   
 * NOTE: This will hide anything across the website that is displayed in the entry-
   meta div.
 *  Thread Starter [Samara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blouishhotmailcom/)
 * (@blouishhotmailcom)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276479)
 * Ahh I did the CSS line but it hides the date of the posting. The site author 
   wants to be able to see the date but not the author.
 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276627)
 * Then you’ll have to track down the php file in the theme containing the format
   for outputting the author, and remove that line. Take a backup in case you break
   it.
 *  Thread Starter [Samara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blouishhotmailcom/)
 * (@blouishhotmailcom)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276634)
 * Unfortunately I do not know what piece of code to look for within the files. 
   I’ve searched for “author” but I am not finding anything.
 * Also still need to remove comments on the pages.
 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276636)
 * You should be looking for one of the following tags within the theme files, either
   in the loop.php or single.php files.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags#Author_tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags#Author_tags)
 * Also, you should be finding this:
 *     ```
       <?php comments_template(); ?>
       ```
   
 * To this:
 *     ```
       <?php //comments_template(); ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Samara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blouishhotmailcom/)
 * (@blouishhotmailcom)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276637)
 * I found this in loop-attachment.php
 *     ```
       <header>
       						<h2 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
   
       						<div class="entry-meta">
       							<?php
       								printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">By</span> %2$s', 'brunelleschi' ),
       									'meta-prep meta-prep-author',
       									sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>',
       										get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ),
       										sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'brunelleschi' ), get_the_author() ),
       										get_the_author()
       									)
       								);
       							?>
       							<span class="meta-sep">|</span>
       							<?php
       								printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Published</span> %2$s', 'brunelleschi' ),
       									'meta-prep meta-prep-entry-date',
       									sprintf( '<span class="entry-date"><abbr class="published" title="%1$s">%2$s</abbr></span>',
       										esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
       										get_the_date()
       									)
       								);
       								if ( wp_attachment_is_image() ) {
       									echo ' <span class="meta-sep">|</span> ';
       									$metadata = wp_get_attachment_metadata();
       									printf( __( 'Full size is %s pixels', 'brunelleschi' ),
       										sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s &times; %4$s</a>',
       											wp_get_attachment_url(),
       											esc_attr( __( 'Link to full-size image', 'brunelleschi' ) ),
       											$metadata['width'],
       											$metadata['height']
       										)
       									);
       								}
       							?>
       							<?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'brunelleschi' ), '<span class="meta-sep">|</span> <span class="edit-link">', '</span>' ); ?>
       						</div><!-- .entry-meta -->
       					</header>
       ```
   
 * And in the loop-single.php file I found this;
 *     ```
       <?php if ( get_the_author_meta( 'description' ) ) :  ?>
       					<div id="entry-author-info">
       						<div id="author-avatar">
       							<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'user_email' ), apply_filters( 'brunelleschi_author_bio_avatar_size', 60 ) ); ?>
       						</div><!-- #author-avatar -->
       						<div id="author-description">
       							<h2><?php printf( esc_attr__( 'About %s', 'brunelleschi' ), get_the_author() ); ?></h2>
       							<?php the_author_meta( 'description' ); ?>
       							<div id="author-link">
       								<a href="<?php echo get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ); ?>">
       									<?php printf( __( 'View all posts by %s <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'brunelleschi' ), get_the_author() ); ?>
       								</a>
       							</div><!-- #author-link	-->
       						</div><!-- #author-description -->
       					</div><!-- #entry-author-info -->
       ```
   
 * Should I be simply deleting that entire code?
 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276638)
 * loop-attachment.php refers to posts you’ve marked as attachment. DO NOT DELETE
   THIS.
 * loop-single.php this block of code you’ve posted is NOT generating the code you
   wish to remove.
 *  Thread Starter [Samara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blouishhotmailcom/)
 * (@blouishhotmailcom)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276639)
 * Hmm. I’m at a loss then. Here are the entire pages of both the loop.php and single.
   php
 * Single.php
 * _[code removed - for future posting of code, please use the [http://pastebin.com/](http://pastebin.com/)]_
 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276641)
 * Right,
 * You’re supposed to use pastebin for your code.
 * So on actually looking at the code, as you’re using a custom theme, it looks 
   like this is where the author and date are being generated.
 *     ```
       <?php brunelleschi_posted_on(); ?>
       ```
   
 * In the first block of code you should comment out the following:
 *     ```
       <?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>
       ```
   
 * And:
 *     ```
       <span class="comments-link"><?php comments_popup_link( __( 'Leave a comment', 'brunelleschi' ), __( '1 Comment', 'brunelleschi' ), __( '% Comments', 'brunelleschi' ) ); ?></span>
       ```
   
 * AS ALWAYS, take a BACKUP in case anything should go awry.
 *  Thread Starter [Samara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blouishhotmailcom/)
 * (@blouishhotmailcom)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276642)
 * By removing the `<?php brunelleschi_posted_on(); ?>` it also removed the date
   the entry was posted which I would still need to keep in there.
 * The second two codes are to remove the comments I assume? In terms of the comments
   I found a widget which simply disabled it for my pages.
 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276643)
 * If you read carefully, I said it was where it was generated, not to remove it,
   you need to find and edit that function.
 *  Thread Starter [Samara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blouishhotmailcom/)
 * (@blouishhotmailcom)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276644)
 * Ah I suppose I didn’t understand what you meant by edit. What exactly am I supposed
   to change the code to? I do not know php so I’m not sure how I am supposed to
   modify the function.
 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276645)
 * could you copy the code from your functions.php to [http://pastebin.com](http://pastebin.com),
   it would most likely be in there.
 *  Thread Starter [Samara](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blouishhotmailcom/)
 * (@blouishhotmailcom)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276646)
 * [http://pastebin.com/rVvFQtD2](http://pastebin.com/rVvFQtD2)
 * There you go, the functions.php I appreciate all the help you’ve been giving 
   me. 🙂
 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-remove-comments/#post-2276647)
 * No worries about the help. I understand when you’re trying to do something it’s
   quite tough when you need to get up to speed, and it’s almost impossible to pick
   up PHP and WordPress straight away.
 * So, on line 110:
 *     ```
       printf( __('<span class="meta-sep">by</span> %3$s <span class="%1$s">Posted on</span> %2$s', 'brunelleschi' ),
       ```
   
 * I think this is the part of that line you will want to remove. Take a back up
   beforehand in case I’m wrong.
 *     ```
       <span class="meta-sep">by</span> %3$s
       ```
   
 * Hope this is it!

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