Title: Removing a function
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Removing a function

 *  [jomonto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jomonto/)
 * (@jomonto)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-a-function/)
 * I’m stuck — working on a child theme for Twenty Eleven.
    Basically I want to 
   remove the “posted by” from all posts. I see that it comes from the function “
   twentyeleven_posted_on()”, but can’t seem to figure out how to remove just the
   author part, without breaking everything.
 * So — is there a way to Null the whole function completely?
 * thank you for your time,
 * john-

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 *  [NateJacobs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natejacobs/)
 * (@natejacobs)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-a-function/#post-2314868)
 * If you want to remove the author information from single posts you will need 
   to have a copy of `content-single.php` in your child theme. The line you are 
   looking for starts with `$tag_list = get_the_tag_list(......`. You will see an
   if/elseif block with the variable `$utility_text`.
 * This is where you need to remove the author information.
 *     ```
       if ( '' != $tag_list ) {
       	$utility_text = __( 'This entry was posted in %1$s and tagged %2$s. Bookmark the <a href="%3$s" title="Permalink to %4$s" rel="bookmark">permalink</a>.', 'twentyeleven' );
       } elseif ( '' != $categories_list ) {
       	$utility_text = __( 'This entry was posted in %1$s. Bookmark the <a href="%3$s" title="Permalink to %4$s" rel="bookmark">permalink</a>.', 'twentyeleven' );
       } else {
       	$utility_text = __( 'Bookmark the <a href="%3$s" title="Permalink to %4$s" rel="bookmark">permalink</a>.', 'twentyeleven' );
       }
       ```
   
 * You can replace the if/elseif with the above code. This removes any mention of
   an author.
 *  Thread Starter [jomonto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jomonto/)
 * (@jomonto)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-a-function/#post-2314907)
 * NateJacobs-
 * Thank you for the response. I added the file to my child theme, made the edit
   that you suggested, but unfortunately it’s still there.
 * With only ONE post — you get just the date of the post (no author).
    Add a second
   post, and then it adds the “posted by”.
 * I’ll keep looking and hacking, see if i can find where this is coming from.
 * Thanks for your time,
 * john-
 *  Thread Starter [jomonto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jomonto/)
 * (@jomonto)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-a-function/#post-2314911)
 * For now —
 * Added this to my child / style.css
 * .entry-meta {
    display: none; }
 * And now no more author… and date too – but ok for now.
 * thanks-

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 * Last reply from: [jomonto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jomonto/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-a-function/#post-2314911)
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