Twenty Fourteen Theme: Modify Post Meta Date Time & Author Byline

Unlike StudioPress child themes, there’s no post meta filter to help you modify the post info data like author name, time and date in the Twenty Fourteen default theme.

Rather than modify the parent themes code which will be lost when you update the theme, you can copy the function to a child themes functions.php file and make the changes there.

Here’s the code for the post meta data which comes from Line 100 of the inc/template-tags.php file:

Now you can easily customize the:

• entry time
• entry date
• author meta