Yes and no; to remove the box entirely, you can use the CSS code
div.post-meta-container {
display:none;
}
But if you want to keep the links/buttons and make them look good, that’s not that trivial for someone whos calls himself a newbie 😉
Typically this would be solved using a child theme. In this child theme one would make modifications to the DIV structure which contains the post meta data, remove all unwanted elements and keep just the two links/buttons (and re-style them via CSS).
If you want to give it a try and inspect your website’s source code to find the DIV structure, hit cmd+alt+c on your Mac’s keyboard. Most probably, some web developer tools will open and you can start exploring the elements which build your page. When displaying the details, you can even see which CSS code is applied to each HTML element.
Thank you so much, Christian. That does actually make some sense so I will give it a try. I definitely have some time on my hands. I will also be sure to mark as resolved 😉