Title: Remove Date and Author
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Remove Date and Author

 *  Resolved [alchemyofyouth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchemyofyouth/)
 * (@alchemyofyouth)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-and-author/)
 * Hello Sakin,
    Your themes are great. I have a question regarding the Simple Catch–
   [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/simple-catch](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/simple-catch)
   How to remove the author and date from a post, but leave comments? I’ve read 
   some suggestions about removing the date/author on the forum, but I would appreciate
   if you could give me specific directions for the Simple Catch. Should I make 
   changes on the theme files or use the “Custom CSS Styles” box under the Theme
   Options? Thank you for your help!

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 *  Thread Starter [alchemyofyouth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchemyofyouth/)
 * (@alchemyofyouth)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-and-author/#post-2907667)
 * Hello,
 * I would appreciate your help.
 * How can I removing the date/author from the postings for the Simple Catch
    theme?
   Should I make changes on the theme files or use the “Custom CSS Styles” box under
   the Theme Options?
 * Thank you!
 *  Thread Starter [alchemyofyouth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchemyofyouth/)
 * (@alchemyofyouth)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-and-author/#post-2907707)
 * I’ve figured out how to remove date and time from index.php
    by finding the_time()
   and the_author_meta() code and converting it to the comment `<!---->`
 *     ```
       <!-- <li class="no-padding-left">" title="<?php echo esc_attr(get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' ) ); ?>">By  <?php the_author_meta( 'display_name' );?>
       <?php the_time( 'j F, Y' ); ?>
       -->
       ```
   
 * However, I have a problem with the comments displaying dates – I couldn’t find
   the_time()`code on comments.php.
 * Also, I can’t remove dates from the posts on the pages.
 * I would appreciate your help.
 * _[Moderator Note: Please post code or markup snippets between backticks or use
   the code button.]_
 *  Thread Starter [alchemyofyouth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchemyofyouth/)
 * (@alchemyofyouth)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-and-author/#post-2907721)
 * I finally resolved it.
    archive.php:
 *     ```
       <!--<li class="no-padding-left"><a>" title="<?php echo esc_attr(get_the_author_meta( 'display_name' ) ); ?>">By  <?php the_author_meta( 'display_name' );?></a>
   
       <li><?php the_time( 'j F, Y' ); ?></li>
       -->
       ```
   
 * _[Moderator Note: Please post code or markup snippets between backticks or use
   the code button.]_
 *  [lucykmason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucykmason/)
 * (@lucykmason)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-and-author/#post-2907762)
 * Hi there, I am trying to remove author, date and comment from simplecatch. I 
   am a complete novice and would love your help! Am I just pasting your last link
   into Custom CSS on the Design Options?
 * It doesn’t seem to be working for me 🙁 Thanks for your help alchemyofyouth!

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 * Last reply from: [lucykmason](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucykmason/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-and-author/#post-2907762)
 * Status: resolved

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