Title: TwentyEleven 1.3 – Customizing Posts
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# TwentyEleven 1.3 – Customizing Posts

 *  [woodson02](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woodson02/)
 * (@woodson02)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twentyeleven-13-customizing-posts/)
 * I’m new to wordpress and I’m trying to figure out how to customize my posts. 
   I have the TwentyEleven theme. I create my initial post that is appearing on 
   my home page.
 * I set up background image for entry-header and change some css on entry-title
   to get it how I want it to appear. But I want to remove the date of the post 
   and the comment option that is appearing to the right on the title. I can’t figure
   out how to eliminate them.
 * And then I would also like to eliminate the meta data appearing at the end of
   the post.
 * Can someone please explain to me how I can do this or direct me to an article
   on how to do it?

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twentyeleven-13-customizing-posts/#post-2579925)
 * First, you should create a [Child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   for your modifications. If you do not do this, all your changes will be lost 
   the next time TwentyEleven is updated.
 * A good tool is essential for trying to adjust the appearance of a site. I use
   the Firefox browser with the Firebug addon. With that, you can right-click any
   screen element and have Firebug show you the CSS and HTML for that element.
 * You can even edit the CSS right there on the screen to try out different settings.
 * One way to hide an element is to apply the ‘display: none;’ style to it.
 * To hide the elements you mentioned, add these lines to the END of you Child’s
   style.css:
 *     ```
       header.entry-header .entry-meta { display: none; }
       header.entry-header .comments-link { display: none; }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [woodson02](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woodson02/)
 * (@woodson02)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twentyeleven-13-customizing-posts/#post-2579993)
 * Worked perfect. Thank you very much.
 *  [madgeystardust](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madgeystardust/)
 * (@madgeystardust)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twentyeleven-13-customizing-posts/#post-2580195)
 * I’m using the same theme with a child theme and would like to set the article
   element to have a background colour of white, but when I do this it ruins the
   rest of the site, as every page has the article div on it and so where I have
   elements in front of a colourful background pic, when I make the article div 
   background colour white, it seems to muck everything up…
 * Take a look and see, my site is [http://www.artescape.org.uk](http://www.artescape.org.uk)
 * Any help or advice provided would be much appreciated.
 * Thanks!
 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twentyeleven-13-customizing-posts/#post-2580196)
 * [@madgeystardust](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madgeystardust/): Please
   start your own thread for this new topic.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twentyeleven-13-customizing-posts/#post-2580196)
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