How to remove comment dates

[JenniferNM]

I've done this before, but can't remember how. 🙂

I'm using the Daily Dish theme and also have Simple Edits installed.

I used Simple Edits to delete the date for posts and now I'd like to remove the dates for comments, since some of my posts are very old, but still relevant.

What shortcode could I add to Simple Edits?

Or is there code I could add in the Editor? The suggestions I've seen posted online for editing the stylesheet or functions page don't match what I see in my theme.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Jennifer

http://www.mendingthenest.com

[Abland]

How about this in your style rules?

p.comment-meta .comment-time {
display: none;
}

[JenniferNM]

Thanks for the suggestion, Abland. Tried that, but it didn't work. It also didn't look like anything else in the comments section.

/* Comments
--------------------------------------------- */

.comment-respond,
.entry-comments,
.entry-pings {
margin-bottom: 40px;
}

.comment-header {
font-size: 16px;
}

li.comment {
background-color: #f5f5f5;
border: 2px solid #fff;
border-right: none;
}

.comment-content {
clear: both;
}

.comment-list li {
margin-top: 24px;
padding: 32px;
}

.comment-list li li {
margin-right: -32px;
}

.comment-respond input[type="email"],
.comment-respond input[type="text"],
.comment-respond input[type="url"] {
width: 50%;
}

.comment-respond label {
display: block;
margin-right: 12px;
}

.entry-comments .comment-author {
margin-bottom: 0;
}

.entry-pings .reply {
display: none;
}

.bypostauthor {
}

[Ren Ventura]

Hide the entire comment-meta element.

.comment-meta {
	display: none;
}

That should work but, if it doesn't for some reason, add the !important declaration, like so:

.comment-meta {
	display: none !important;
}

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[JenniferNM]

Thank you, Ren - I'll try that and report back! Cheers. 🙂

[Carlo]

Hi Jennifer. Using display: none; is not a very good solution because the dates will still be there in the source code.

Instead, I've prepared some code that you can add to your theme functions to properly remove the dates.

function jennifer_comment_callback( $comment, array $args, $depth ) {
	ob_start();
	genesis_html5_comment_callback( $comment, $args, $depth );
	$all_content = ob_get_clean();

	ob_start();
	?><p <?php echo genesis_attr( 'comment-meta' ); ?>>
				<?php
				printf( '<time %s>', genesis_attr( 'comment-time' ) );
				printf( '<a href="%s" %s>', esc_url( get_comment_link( $comment->comment_ID ) ), genesis_attr( 'comment-time-link' ) );
				echo    esc_html( get_comment_date() ) . ' ' . __( 'at', 'genesis' ) . ' ' . esc_html( get_comment_time() );
				echo    '</a></time>';

				edit_comment_link( __( '(Edit)', 'genesis' ), ' ' );
				?>
			</p><?php
	$content_to_remove = ob_get_clean();

	echo str_replace( $content_to_remove, '', $all_content );
}

add_filter( 'genesis_comment_list_args', function( $defaults ) {
	$defaults[ 'callback' ] = 'jennifer_comment_callback';
	return $defaults;
} );

Let me know if that works.

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[Carlo]

I recently published a tutorial on this topic:
http://carlomanf.id.au/remove-comment-dates/

There will be a filter for this in Genesis 2.2.

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