Eliminate Title Links and Date, Author, etc

[Carl]

Hey. I love the theme. Question. I would love to get rid of the ability to click the title of the post and hid or get rid of the date, author, comment, and category heading once i post. Is there any way to do so?

[Bill Robbins]

Good Morning Carl,

I’m glad you’re enjoying the theme. You can change those items with a bit of editing. Here’s what to do:

1. Go to the Appearance section in your WordPress control panel and select Edit.
2. From the list of files on your right, choose index.php and find this line:

   
   <h2 class="title"><a href=""><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2> 
   

3. Replace that with this:
   
4. Save your changes.

That should remove the title links from the blog section. To remove the date, author and so on, do this:

1. Go to the Appearance section in your WordPress control panel and select Edit.
2. From the list of files on your right, choose post-meta.php
3. Replace everything in that file with this:
   
4. Save your changes.

That should take care of the “post meta” information line.

If you run into any questions or trouble, just let me know.

Have a great week,
Bill

[Carl]

That did delete the link ability in the title, but how can I keep the color behind it?

[Bill Robbins]

You can do that too. The link is what sets the background and text color there so it can have a different hover state. Here’s how to make it work without the links there:

1. Go to the Theme Options page and select the Styling tab.
2. Scroll down to the Custom CSS box and paste this:

   
   h2.title {
        color: #ffffff;
        background-color: #a01113;
   }
   

3. Replace the #ffffff with the color you'd like the text to be and the #a01113 with the color you'd like to have in the background there.
4. Update your settings.

Let me know if you run into any trouble,
Bill

[Carl]

You rock. Works!

[Bill Robbins]

Sweet! Have a great day. We’re here if you need anything else.

[Author]

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