[pakhibagai]

How can I remove author names and the ability to comment from the Posts, FAQ’s and Articles?

[Ricardo Aiello]

Hi pakhibagai,

If you want to disable comments for a specific post, FAQ or article, you can do so by editing it and unchecking the option in Discussion > Allow comments. If you don’t see the Discussion section, you should check if it’s enabled in the Screen options (in the upper right corner of the edit page).

If you don’t want your users to be commenting in your site at all, you can disable comments entirely by unchecking the option in Settings > Discussion > Default article settings > Allow people to post comments on new articles. In case that you want an intermediate option, you can fine-tune the commenting functionality of your site from this page of the WordPress admin.

Note that disabling the comments for the site does not disable them for previously published items: if you want to do so, you have to do it for each one of them. Fortunately, you can use WordPress’ bulk edit functionality by going to the items’ listing, checking all the items you want to edit, selecting Edit from the Bulk Actions dropdown menu, and choosing Do not allow in the Comments option.

Removing the author box is much easier: you can do it by unchecking the option in NiceThemes > Theme Options > General Settings > Post Author Box.

Please let me know if this fixes your issues, and if we can be of further assistance.

Best,

Ricardo

[pakhibagai]

Hi Ricardo,

The funny thing is that the box for ‘Post Author Box’ under NiceThemes > Theme Options > General Settings was unchecked. However, it is still showing up on our site. Could you check and advise?

The comments have been disabled. Apologies as I was unclear earlier on. You see when I make a post or post an article or FAQ – there is a line below the heading with icons for :

Author, Date, No comments like:
(Icon) Pakhi (Icon) December 21, 2015 (Icon) No Comments

I want to remove the icon with the Author name and the icon with the No Comments and ONLY retail the icon with the date for posts, FAQs and articles.

Is there a clean way to do this?

[Ricardo Aiello]

Hi pakhibagai,

Would you please provide me with a link to your website? With that, I’ll be happy to look into the issue.

Thanks in advance,

Ricardo

[pakhibagai]

Sure Ricardo – its http://www.nudgespot.com/help/

[Ricardo Aiello]

Hi pakhibagai,

Thanks, I see it now.

That piece of HTML code can’t be removed, but you can prevent it from showing by pasting the following code in NiceThemes > Theme Options > Design & Styles > Custom CSS:

.post-meta .post-author {
  display: none;
}

Please let me know if this fixes your issue, and if we can be of further assistance.

Best,

Ricardo

[pakhibagai]

Thanks Ricardo – it worked like a charm. How do I also remove the ‘No comments’ bit just like you helped me make the author name disappear?

[Ricardo Aiello]

Hi pakhibagai,

Sure! You can do it the same way, the code is very similar. For the comments part:

.post-meta .post-comments {
  display: none;
}

And for the date part:

.post-meta .post-date {
  display: none;
}

Please let me know if you need further assistance.

Best,

Ricardo

[pakhibagai]

Thanks Ricardo. You are a rock star!

[Ricardo Aiello]

Hi pakhibagai,

Thanks, glad to help! Please write again if there is anything else we can do for you.

Cheers,

Ricardo