How to Unlink Comment Date and Remove Time?

Participant

I want to go from:

(link)September 21, 2014(/link) at 6:48 pm

September 21, 2014

How do I do that as easily and as non-intrusive as possible?

thanks!

http://regevelya.com/building-muscle-for-skinny-guys/

September 22, 2014 at 12:15 pm #125341

Participant

I don't see any dates or times on that page.

The best method to use to customize your post info is to use the Genesis Simple Edits plugin.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-simple-edits/
If you need to know all the shortcodes you can use,
http://my.studiopress.com/docs/shortcode-reference/

September 22, 2014 at 12:21 pm #125343

Participant

I'm talking about the linked date in the comments (not the post itself)

September 22, 2014 at 2:53 pm #125360

Participant

The easy way to remove BOTH the date and time is to add this below the comments section in style.css
.comment-meta {
display: none;
}

If you really want to remove ONLY the time, you have to do two things:

first filter the genesis_comment_list_args
and then rewrite the genesis_comment_callback function with the get_comment_time part removed.

But I found this earlier forum post. Just copy all the code in the order written into your functions.php
Use the code in the post from stacyvlasits - http://www.studiopress.community/topic/using-simple-hooks-to-remove-comment-date/#post-25849

September 22, 2014 at 3:06 pm #125363

Participant

Thanks Marcy! but he doesn't talk about removing that link though, there must be an easier way to do both at once

or perhaps.. if i just go the easy CSS route to remove both the date and time - is there an easy way to just add the date manually somehow, perhaps through a short function snippet?

September 22, 2014 at 3:45 pm #125372

Participant

Unfortunately, I don't think there is. I can't find a filter for either Genesis or WordPress.
You just have to add all the code to rewrite the line that adds the link around the date and time.

But looking at his code and the genesis code, his code is for XHTML, not HTML5, so it needs to be modified.

Here is the code that does what you want. Just add it to the bottom of your functions.php.

add_filter( 'genesis_comment_list_args', 'custom_comment_list_args' );
//* Filter the genesis_comment_list_args to add a custom callback function
function custom_comment_list_args( $args ) {
    $args['callback'] = 'custom_comment_callback_no_date';
    return $args;
}

function custom_comment_callback_no_date( $comment, array $args, $depth ) {

    $GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment; ?>

    <li <?php comment_class(); ?> id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>">
    <article <?php echo genesis_attr( 'comment' ); ?>>

        <?php do_action( 'genesis_before_comment' ); ?>

        <header <?php echo genesis_attr( 'comment-header' ); ?>>
            <p <?php echo genesis_attr( 'comment-author' ); ?>>
                <?php
                echo get_avatar( $comment, $args['avatar_size'] );

                $author = get_comment_author();
                $url    = get_comment_author_url();

                if ( ! empty( $url ) && 'http://' !== $url ) {
                    $author = sprintf( '<a href="%s" %s>%s</a>', esc_url( $url ), genesis_attr( 'comment-author-link' ), $author );
                }

                /**
                 * Filter the "comment author says" text.
                 *
                 * Allows developer to filter the "comment author says" text so it can say something different, or nothing at all.
                 *
                 * @since unknown
                 * 
                 * @param string $text Comment author says text.
                 */
                $comment_author_says_text = apply_filters( 'comment_author_says_text', __( 'says', 'genesis' ) );

                printf( '<span itemprop="name">%s</span> <span class="says">%s</span>', $author, $comment_author_says_text );
                ?>
            </p>

            <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() ) . '</a> ' . __( 'at', 'genesis' ) . ' ' . esc_html( get_comment_time() );
                echo    '</time>';

                edit_comment_link( __( '(Edit)', 'genesis' ), ' ' );
                ?>
            </p>
        </header>

        <div <?php echo genesis_attr( 'comment-content' ); ?>>
            <?php if ( ! $comment->comment_approved ) : ?>
                <?php
                /**
                 * Filter the "comment awaiting moderation" text.
                 *
                 * Allows developer to filter the "comment awaiting moderation" text so it can say something different, or nothing at all.
                 *
                 * @since unknown
                 * 
                 * @param string $text Comment awaiting moderation text.
                 */
                $comment_awaiting_moderation_text = apply_filters( 'genesis_comment_awaiting_moderation', __( 'Your comment is awaiting moderation.', 'genesis' ) );
                ?>
                <p class="alert"><?php echo $comment_awaiting_moderation_text; ?></p>
            <?php endif; ?>

            <?php comment_text(); ?>
        </div>

        <?php
        comment_reply_link( array_merge( $args, array(
            'depth'  => $depth,
            'before' => sprintf( '<div %s>', genesis_attr( 'comment-reply' ) ),
            'after'  => '</div>',
        ) ) );
        ?>

        <?php do_action( 'genesis_after_comment' ); ?>

    </article>
    <?php
    //* No ending </li> tag because of comment threading

}

September 22, 2014 at 4:33 pm #125381

Participant

0_0

is that html5 or xhtml?

thanks a lot darcy, really appreciate the time and effort

September 25, 2014 at 9:36 am #125674

Participant

I managed to remove the comment date and the link through this code that I found and edited a little bit:

// First remove the genesis_default_list_comments function
remove_action( 'genesis_list_comments', 'genesis_default_list_comments' );
 
// Now add our own and specify our custom callback
add_action( 'genesis_list_comments', 'child_default_list_comments' );
function child_default_list_comments() {
 
    $args = array(
        'type'          => 'comment',
        'avatar_size'   => 54,
        'callback'      => 'child_comment_callback',
    );
 
    $args = apply_filters( 'genesis_comment_list_args', $args );
 
    wp_list_comments( $args );
 
}
 
// This is where you customize the HTML output
function child_comment_callback( $comment, $args, $depth ) {
 
    $GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment; ?>
 
    <li <?php comment_class(); ?> id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">
         
        <?php do_action( 'genesis_before_comment' ); ?>
         
        <div class="comment-left">
 
            <div class="comment-author vcard">
                <?php echo get_avatar( $comment, $size = $args['avatar_size'] ); ?>
                <?php printf( __( '<cite class="fn">%s</cite> <span class="says">%s</span>', 'genesis' ), get_comment_author_link(), apply_filters( 'comment_author_says_text', __( '', 'genesis' ) ) ); ?>
            </div><!-- end .comment-author -->
     
            <div class="comment-meta commentmetadata">
<?php printf( __( '%1$s', 'genesis' ), get_comment_date()); ?>
                <?php edit_comment_link( __( 'Edit', 'genesis' ), g_ent( '&bull; ' ), '' ); ?>
            </div><!-- end .comment-meta -->
             
        </div>
         
        <div class="comment-right">   
     
            <div class="comment-content">
                <?php if ($comment->comment_approved == '0') : ?>
                    <p class="alert"><?php echo apply_filters( 'genesis_comment_awaiting_moderation', __( 'Your comment is awaiting moderation.', 'genesis' ) ); ?></p>
                <?php endif; ?>
     
                <?php comment_text(); ?>
            </div><!-- end .comment-content -->
     
            <div class="reply">
                <?php comment_reply_link( array_merge( $args, array( 'depth' => $depth, 'max_depth' => $args['max_depth'] ) ) ); ?>
            </div>
             
        </div>    
 
        <?php do_action( 'genesis_after_comment' );
 
    /** No ending </li> tag because of comment threading */
 
}

but the comment content begins a line or two earlier and it looks very strange. Here's a screenshot. Any idea what in the code might be causing that?

Also, what are those <div class="comment-right"> and <div class="comment-left"> ? i don't see any right and left columns in the comments so am i missing something?

September 25, 2014 at 12:50 pm #125700

Participant

The code you list is the same code section I posted above.
Did you try to paste the code I posted at the bottom of your functions.php?
What happened? Did it work?

September 25, 2014 at 5:24 pm #125735

Participant

Thanks Darcy, I tried to use the code you provided but it doesn't work. It simply 'unlinks' the comment time - but still links the comment date and still shows the time.

The code I put above does work - it only shows an unlinked comment date and nothing else. But the comment 'content' doesn't begin nicely from a clean spot but from one line below the date, which looks very strange. Look at this screenshot to see what I mean.

Any Idea what I should change?

Thanks again, you're beyond awesome

September 25, 2014 at 5:47 pm #125736

Participant

Yes, it does this:
"but still links the comment date and still shows the time"

because I didn't read your second line in your original post. I thought you only wanted to unlink the date. :-/
I've pasted the code again.
Cheers, Marcy

add_filter( 'genesis_comment_list_args', 'custom_comment_list_args' );
//* Filter the genesis_comment_list_args to add a custom callback function
function custom_comment_list_args( $args ) {
    $args['callback'] = 'custom_comment_callback_no_date';
    return $args;
}

function custom_comment_callback_no_date( $comment, array $args, $depth ) {

    $GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment; ?>

    <li <?php comment_class(); ?> id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>">
    <article <?php echo genesis_attr( 'comment' ); ?>>

        <?php do_action( 'genesis_before_comment' ); ?>

        <header <?php echo genesis_attr( 'comment-header' ); ?>>
            <p <?php echo genesis_attr( 'comment-author' ); ?>>
                <?php
                echo get_avatar( $comment, $args['avatar_size'] );

                $author = get_comment_author();
                $url    = get_comment_author_url();

                if ( ! empty( $url ) && 'http://' !== $url ) {
                    $author = sprintf( '<a href="%s" %s>%s</a>', esc_url( $url ), genesis_attr( 'comment-author-link' ), $author );
                }

                /**
                 * Filter the "comment author says" text.
                 *
                 * Allows developer to filter the "comment author says" text so it can say something different, or nothing at all.
                 *
                 * @since unknown
                 * 
                 * @param string $text Comment author says text.
                 */
                $comment_author_says_text = apply_filters( 'comment_author_says_text', __( 'says', 'genesis' ) );

                printf( '<span itemprop="name">%s</span> <span class="says">%s</span>', $author, $comment_author_says_text );
                ?>
            </p>

            <p <?php echo genesis_attr( 'comment-meta' ); ?>>
                <?php               
                printf( '<time %s>', genesis_attr( 'comment-time' ) );
                echo    esc_html( get_comment_date() );
                echo    '</time>';

                edit_comment_link( __( '(Edit)', 'genesis' ), ' ' );
                ?>
            </p>
        </header>

        <div <?php echo genesis_attr( 'comment-content' ); ?>>
            <?php if ( ! $comment->comment_approved ) : ?>
                <?php
                /**
                 * Filter the "comment awaiting moderation" text.
                 *
                 * Allows developer to filter the "comment awaiting moderation" text so it can say something different, or nothing at all.
                 *
                 * @since unknown
                 * 
                 * @param string $text Comment awaiting moderation text.
                 */
                $comment_awaiting_moderation_text = apply_filters( 'genesis_comment_awaiting_moderation', __( 'Your comment is awaiting moderation.', 'genesis' ) );
                ?>
                <p class="alert"><?php echo $comment_awaiting_moderation_text; ?></p>
            <?php endif; ?>

            <?php comment_text(); ?>
        </div>

        <?php
        comment_reply_link( array_merge( $args, array(
            'depth'  => $depth,
            'before' => sprintf( '<div %s>', genesis_attr( 'comment-reply' ) ),
            'after'  => '</div>',
        ) ) );
        ?>

        <?php do_action( 'genesis_after_comment' ); ?>

    </article>
    <?php
        //* No ending </li> tag because of comment threading

}

September 26, 2014 at 3:01 am #125790

Participant

YOU ROCK MARCY !!!!

Working perfectly, you have no idea how thankful I am.

Is there a way to incorporate the following code into this snippet to make the it more organised?

//* Modify the size of the Gravatar in the entry comments
add_filter( 'genesis_comment_list_args', 'mobile_first_comments_gravatar' );
function mobile_first_comments_gravatar( $args ) {

	$args['avatar_size'] = 96;
	return $args;

}

I also noticed that changing the avatar size doesn't change its size but its 'resolution' - when I set it on 48 the gravatar becomes blurred, whys that

September 26, 2014 at 9:52 am #125827

Participant

You can comment out your custom avatar function, and add this line.
$args['avatar_size'] = 96;
to my first function above this line.
$args['callback'] = 'custom_comment_callback_no_date';

The resolution of the gravatars is a whole different thing right now. 🙂

Are you looking at the blurry 48px gravatar on a computer screen with retina display?
The 96px allows for 2X resolution when displayed at 48px.

The 48px display should be in your style.css.

September 26, 2014 at 1:18 pm #125851

Participant

What do you mean 'comment out' my custom avatar? you mean replace $args['callback'] = 'custom_comment_callback_no_date'; with $args['avatar_size'] = 96; ?

Yes I'm looking at the blurry 48px form my MacBook Pro Retina. So the functions control the resolution and the stylesheet control the actual size?

September 26, 2014 at 1:36 pm #125854

Participant

I said 'custom avatar function' - the one you listed above.

Do NOT replace
$args['callback'] = 'custom_comment_callback_no_date'; with $args['avatar_size'] = 96;
or your comment date links will be the same as before.

If you want to combine the avatar function with the comments function, then the whole 1st function in my code above should look like this:

add_filter( 'genesis_comment_list_args', 'custom_comment_list_args' );
//* Filter the genesis_comment_list_args to add a custom callback function
function custom_comment_list_args( $args ) {
    $args['avatar_size'] = 96;
    $args['callback'] = 'custom_comment_callback_no_date';
    return $args;
}

The answer to your retina question is: Yes

September 26, 2014 at 2:58 pm #125860

Participant

Awesome! it works!

any line to add so that I can incorporate that too and reduce the mess?

//* Remove comment form allowed tags
add_filter( 'comment_form_defaults', 'sixteen_nine_remove_comment_form_allowed_tags' );
function sixteen_nine_remove_comment_form_allowed_tags( $defaults ) {
	
	$defaults['comment_notes_after'] = '';
	return $defaults;

}

Thanks again Darcy

September 27, 2014 at 9:24 am #125947

pressdeamon

Participant

I got this code to work for translating a few things, but the word "reply" at the bottom of the comment won't change. I see there's something about that on the code, but couldn't figure out what to edit to change the "reply" text. This text won't change with .po translations or editing directly the comment-template.php, so I thought of using this code as it worked for the other areas of the comment form.

September 27, 2014 at 10:36 am #125954

Participant

@Regev No, that's not part of the comment_callback; that's the form; just leave as is

@pressdeamon You would need to add some arguments to the comment_reply_link function; the default is "Reply"
Here is the WordPress Codex page explaining it.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_reply_link

You need to add a "reply_text" argument to comment_reply_link function.

If you don't know how to do this, you may want to start a new thread; there may be a better method than this.

September 29, 2014 at 6:06 am #126131