Remove Date Author Comment Category & Tag Links from Blog Page in Genesis

This post for Genesis beginners provides 3 ways to remove the entry meta from the blog page template:

Remove author, date, comment, category and tag links

The entry meta in the entry header is sometimes referred to as the post info and generally contains links for the:

  • Author
  • Date
  • Comments

The entry meta in the entry footer contains links for:

  • Categories
  • Tags

Choose only 1 of these solutions to remove all the entry meta from your blog page template in Genesis.

1. Custom Function

Add this custom function to your child themes functions.php file.

2. Custom Blog Page Template

This blog page template removes the entry meta in the entry header and entry footer.

To use this code, simply create a new file in your child themes root directory named page_blog.php and add the code from the view raw link in the above Gist labelled page_blog.php.

Then you can select it from the Page Attributes box on any Edit Page screen as your new custom blog page template.

3. CSS

This is the easiest solution.

Add this CSS near the end of your child themes style.css file

.page-template-page_blog-php .entry-meta {
    display: none;
}

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