Title: Remove DATE from all posts
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Remove DATE from all posts

 *  Resolved [Pres7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pres7/)
 * (@pres7)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-from-all-posts/)
 * How do I remove the date from posts?

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 *  [kjpro27](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjpro27/)
 * (@kjpro27)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-from-all-posts/#post-5303998)
 * You would have to remove the date function in your single.php file of your theme.
 *  [Joseph Dickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josephdickson/)
 * (@josephdickson)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-from-all-posts/#post-5303999)
 * You can easily hide it from view with css which is the easiest route.
 * However if you want to remove references in the source code that requires some
   template tweaking and removing the function where it appears.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_date](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_date)
 * Ideally you would want to create a child theme based on the original so your 
   changes don’t become overwritten when theme updates occur.
 * Personally I would go the css route and just do the following.
 *     ```
       .entry-meta {display:none;}
       ```
   
 * Then tweak the css further as needed for your theme. Note that it will only hide
   the .entry-meta from view. The source code will remain so it will be indexed 
   by search engines.
 *  Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * (@bensibley)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-from-all-posts/#post-5304073)
 * Thanks for the help guys 🙂
 * As Joseph said, you can simply hide it with CSS, and while this won’t hide it
   from search engines, it will do no harm hiding it this way.
 * The CSS to hide the publish date above the post title on both the blog and individual
   post pages is as follows:
 *     ```
       .excerpt-meta-top,
       .entry-meta-top {
         display: none;
       }
       ```
   
 * You can copy and paste that into the Custom CSS section in the Customizer. Once
   added, the dates will disappear.
 *  Thread Starter [Pres7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pres7/)
 * (@pres7)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-from-all-posts/#post-5304123)
 * Thank you all for your help.
 * Ben your code worked.
 * Joseph, your code works for WordPress in general, but not for this theme.
 *  Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * (@bensibley)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-from-all-posts/#post-5304145)
 * No problem, glad the code is working for you.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-date-from-all-posts/#post-5304145)
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