Remove Post Meta On Pages, Posts & Archives

You can use either CSS or PHP code to customize the display of post meta on your:

• Home page
• Blog page
• Category archives
• Tag archives
• Site Wide

Example 1: This code removes the post meta on sites running HTML 5 and will not work on XHTML sites.

remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_meta', 12 );

Example 2: This code removes the post meta on sites running XHTML and will not work on HTML 5 sites.

remove_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'genesis_post_meta' );

What is Post Meta?

Post meta is the data displayed when you assign your posts to one or more categories and tag your posts with one or more tags.

Example:

It is generally displayed at the end of your single posts and on archive pages like your blog page, home page, categories page and tag archive pages.

How To Find Post Meta Classes

The easiest way to find the classes you need to target to remove both post meta for categories and tags is to use a web development tool named Firebug.

You can then inspect the tagged under and filed under elements and view the classes.

Lets take a look at removing post meta for both categories and tags on all pages they are displayed in WordPress.

Note: These code snippets are based on using the Genesis theme framework however you can easily modify theme and replace the CSS classes to match the theme you are using.

Remove Post Meta On Home Page

This code will remove the post meta for tags on all posts which are displayed on the homepage:

.home .post-meta .tags {
    display: none;
}

This code removes the categories post meta on all posts on your homepage:

.home .post-meta .tags {
    display: none;
}

This code will remove post meta for both categories and tags from displaying on the home page.

.home .post-meta,  
.categories, 
.tags { 
    display: none; 
}

Remove Post Meta From Blog Page Archives

Here’s the CSS code for removing posts meta for both categories and tags from all posts included in your blog page archives.

.page-template-page_blog-php .post-meta,  
.categories, 
.tags { 
     display: none; 
}

Remove Post Meta On Categories Archives Page

Simply use the code above and replace the .home with your blog page template class.

This code will remove the post meta for categories and tags on all posts which are displayed on the categories archives page with an i.d of 123:

.category-123 .post-meta,  
.categories, 
.tags { 
    display: none; 
}

Remove Post Meta From Tag Archives

Use this code to remove posts meta from all posts in your tag archives.

.tag .post-meta,  
.categories, 
.tags { 
    display: none; 
}

Remove Posts Meta Site Wide

There’s different ways to remove all your post meta from your entire site.

Here’s the CSS code to remove post meta for both categories and tags from all single posts and all archive pages site wide.

.post-meta,  
.categories, 
.tags { 
    display: none; 
}

Here’s the PHP code to remove post meta from your entire site when using the Genesis theme framework:

remove_action( 'genesis_after_post_content', 'genesis_post_meta' );

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PHP – Remove Post Meta On All Pages

This code will remove the post meta from displaying on all pages including your home page, blog page, category and tag archive pages.

add_action ( 'genesis_meta' , 'remove_post_meta_pages' );
function remove_post_meta_pages() {
	if ( is_page () )
	remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_post_meta' );
}

You could also code it this way:

add_action ( 'genesis_meta' , 'remove_entry_meta_from_archive_pages' );
function remove_entry_meta_from_archive_pages() {
	if ( is_page() )
	remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 12 );
}

Remove Post Info and Entry Meta from single pages

add_action ( 'genesis_meta' , 'remove_post_meta_pages' );
function remove_post_meta_pages() {
	if ( is_singular('page') )
	remove_action( 'genesis_entry_footer', 'genesis_post_meta' );
        remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 12 );
}

You can modify this code to remove post meta for either tagged with and filed under category.

PHP – Remove Post Meta From All Single Posts

add_action ( 'genesis_meta' , 'remove_entry_meta_single_posts' );
function remove_entry_meta_single_posts() {
	if ( is_singular('post') )
	remove_action( 'genesis_entry_header', 'genesis_post_info', 12 );
}

This code will remove all your posts meta from single posts.

Using Conditional Tags For Removing Post Meta

Using conditional tags enables you to remove post meta from displaying anywhere on your site.

Simply change the tag in the code and you can not only remove the post meta data, but also the HTML code it outputs in your source code.

CSS code will NOT remove the output of HTML code in your source code which is scanned by the search engine bots. It will simply hide the post meta from displaying on the front end.

Using Plugin To Remove Post Meta

You can also install the Genesis Simple Edits plugin and remove the shortcodes for the post meta you do not wish to display globally.

I hope you have found this post useful and discovered an easy way to remove post meta from your own website.