Post Info: How to remove date from WordPress post
Post info is important for blogs where content gets updated frequently. But there are some blogs where content frequency is little low and posts don’t go live every day or on regular intervals. If the blog URL’s are ranking in SERP for targeted keywords, then it won’t look nice that the post is appearing with date. For example my blog is getting rank on “How to Write SEO Friendly Content”. You can see the complete post info along with date when I published that article. I have enabled dates because I want it to be there.
It’s because my content frequency is decent and I write SEO answers regularly as I got a lot of questions on quora. I try my level best to solve them and if I find any problem useful and very common which needs to be solved for everyone then I pick up those problems and provide solution on my blog.
But most of the time getting complete post info on SERP is a problem for bloggers who don’t post regular updates on their blogs. In this situation getting rid of Post info & dates is the best option for them. Today I am going to share some cool ways by which you can get rid of Post info and can remove date from wordpress post.
Solutions 1 to Remove date from wordpress post
Use a table or layout as a home page instead of using a static page. Do not use a “Page” as your homepage. If you use page then search engines will automatically grab the post date or page creation date and show in SERP. For example, I am using a template with bunch of pages and call to actions as a layout on my blog TheSEOGuy. That’s why if you search for my blog, only the posts would show date but the homepage would not show any date in SERP.
Solution 2 to Remove Page info from wordpress post by custom CSS
You can add small custom code to remove page info. For this you can follow given below steps.
Login to your wordpress dashboard
Click on appearance
Chose Customize
Now Click on Additional CSS
Now paste given below code in additional css box
.entry-date{
display:none;
}
Click Publish.
This function will remove date from your wordpress post.
Solutions 3 to Remove date from wordpress post by stylesheet
You can also use child themes and adjust the stylesheet to remove post info which will help you to remove date from your wordpress posts. It’s quick and easy solution to remove the date from your posts. Simply create a child theme and add the following snippet to your newly created stylesheet:
{code type=php}
.entry-date {
display: none;
}
{/code}
This code will remove both the date and the clock icon that displays next to the date on themes
However, if you are new to blogging and don’t know how to play with codes then you can also take help of plugins.
Solutions 4 to remove date from wordpress post by plugins
There are lots of plugin available which can help you to adjust the post info and remove the date form wordpress post. So far I’ve tested two plugins which seems fine and working good for me.
Install any of above listed plugin and active it. It will remove the dates from your wordpress post and adjust the page info.
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So these were 4 basic solutions to adjust page info and get rid of dates from posts. Do let me know your feedback for this information. You can comment below your feedback. Also if you have any suggestions for improvement then do let me know.
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