Title: Styling post meta data
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Styling post meta data

 *  Resolved [Diomedes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diomedes/)
 * (@diomedes)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-post-meta-data/)
 * Right now my post meta data reads like this — BY JOE SMITH ON FEBRUARY 8, 2008—
   and I would like to change it to — _By_ JOE SMITH _on_ FEBRUARY 8, 2008. How 
   can I style it likewise?
 * My CSS codes —
 * `<p class="postmetadata2">By Joe Smith on <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?> <?php
   edit_post_link(__('{Edit}'), ''); ?></p>`
 *     ```
       .postmetadata2 {
       	text-transform: uppercase;
       	letter-spacing: 1px;
       	font-size: 11px;
       	position: relative;
       	bottom: 5px;
       }
       ```
   

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-post-meta-data/#post-3281659)
 * Which theme are you using?
 *  Thread Starter [Diomedes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diomedes/)
 * (@diomedes)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-post-meta-data/#post-3281660)
 * Customized White as Milk. Let me know if you want the link.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-post-meta-data/#post-3281662)
 * It sounds as though you’ll need to create a [Child Theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   of White as Milk theme. Do you know which template the page you want modified
   uses?
 *  Thread Starter [Diomedes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diomedes/)
 * (@diomedes)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-post-meta-data/#post-3281666)
 * Not sure what you mean by that. Do you mean `index.php` and `single.php`?
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-post-meta-data/#post-3281667)
 * add some spans;
 * example:
 * `<p class="postmetadata2"><span>By</span> Joe Smith <span>on</span> <?php the_time('
   F jS, Y'); ?> <?php edit_post_link(__('{Edit}'), ''); ?></p>`
 * css:
    `.postmetadata2 span { font-style: italic; text-transform: none; }`
 *  Thread Starter [Diomedes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diomedes/)
 * (@diomedes)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-post-meta-data/#post-3281669)
 * Perfect. Thanks very much!

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## Tags

 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [post meta data](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post-meta-data/)
 * [styling](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/styling/)

 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Diomedes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diomedes/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/styling-post-meta-data/#post-3281669)
 * Status: resolved

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