Hiding Author Box

[Judy Asman]

Hi, Andre,
Can you please tell me how I can hide the author box on posts for Preferential. I’m using the Starbox plugin but the author box is repeating. Is this a function of your template or the Yoast SEO feature? If the latter, I will take care of it with the Yoast plugin.

http://judyasman.com/how-to-do-a-blog/

Thank you!

[Sushil Adhikari]

Hi Judy…. if you are referring to the “Author: Judy Asman” below the post heading, you can, but requires a display: none; with CSS.

dd.meta-author {display: none;}

[Judy Asman]

Hi, Andre,
Thank you — actually, I’m referring to the author box below the post itself and above comments section. It has an author thumbnail and bio.

[Sushil Adhikari]

No worries..thanks for the clarification…. the container you can then hide is an ID of author-info

#author-info

Do you have more than one author in the site? This is usually when that author info shows up.

[Judy Asman]

Ahh interesting. yes, I just added a new author. That would explain as I did not notice it before! Thank you again 🙂

[Zdenka]

Hi Judy,

I noticed you managed to remove the author line without any remnant gap from the meta data below the post and replace Published: by Last Modified. Please, would you help me do that?

And for fonts, are you using a plugin or have you changed them manually?

[Judy Asman]

Hi, Zdenka,
I apologize for delay. I just got back in from out of town. I used the Starbox plugin for authors. I didn’t have to change the fonts as it reads from my child theme style.css.
Are you using Starbox? Do you have a link you can share?

[Zdenka]

Hi Judy,

thank you very much for your reply.
No, I don’t mean Starbox plugin but rather the post footer info which is like this:
Posted in:
Tagged:
Last Modified:

This is different from the default Preferential footer info (tagged / posted in / author / published)
I’d love to have the “Last modified” date instead of “Published” and leave out the author.

I’m using the Preferential child theme so I can easily add any custum CSS there. However I’m not so skilled in coding. I’ll be very grateful for any help.

[Judy Asman]

Thanks Zdenka. I’m actually not using Preferential for this site but Preference — the older version of it. Maybe Andre can help you with this in the Preferential forum…I didn’t make any CSS adjustments to the section you are referring to. I hope this helps!!

[Sushil Adhikari]

I’d love to have the “Last modified” date instead of “Published” and leave out the author.

You will need to copy the content-single.php file into your child theme and then look for this:

Then change it to this:

On the line of code, make sure you change the “Published:” part to be “Modified”

As for removing the author from the post footer area, normally I would say do this custom CSS:

.meta-author {display: none;}

Or, with the copied content-single.php file in your child theme, you can remove this batch of code:

<?php printf( __( 'Articles by: %s', 'preferential' ), '' . get_the_author() . '' ); ?>

[Zdenka]

Thank you very much André! That worked perfectly!
(.meta-author {display: none;} removed the text but leaving an empty line)

[Sushil Adhikari]

You may need to modify the content-single.php then to remove the

[Zdenka]

I just removed all the code about the author, just as you advised above. So far it’s sufficient for my needs. Thank you very, very much!

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