Title: Plugin to remove date, time, author? Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Plugin to remove date, time, author? * [ang333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ang333/) * (@ang333) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-to-remove-date-time-author/) * I have read the posts about removing date, time, and author by going into some root directory and using html–I have no idea how to find this area of my website, so isn’t there a simple plugin to remove this? I was told the WordPress was user friendly but I’m not finding that the case. I am just starting to put my blog together and I don’t have any posts. I have a blog on blogger and it’s very easy to get rid of the dates and time. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [Ramesh (thecodeisclear)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thecodeisclear/) * (@thecodeisclear) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-to-remove-date-time-author/#post-5012375) * Hi, * Welcome to WordPress. * It is easy to edit and disable the date/time details by editing your theme. WordPress comes with an inbuilt code editor and once you get the hang of how WordPress is structured, editing themes is simple and mostly break-proof. * What is the theme you are using? If it is a free theme, I can take a shot at telling you which file to edit and what to change. * Thanks, Ramesh * Thread Starter [ang333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ang333/) * (@ang333) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-to-remove-date-time-author/#post-5012406) * How do I find this built in code editor? I am using a free theme Stargazer. Also, how do I preview what my site looks like? In blogger it was easy. I just hit preview or view site. Thanks. * [Ramesh (thecodeisclear)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thecodeisclear/) * (@thecodeisclear) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-to-remove-date-time-author/#post-5012411) * Once you login to your admin dashboard, you will see a menu item called **“Appearance”**. The last sub-item in this menu is **Editor**. Click on the Editor and by default the current theme is loaded for editing. (You can use the drop down at the top of the editable area to begin editing another theme). * Okay, so now you should have the Stargazer theme loaded in the Editor. The list of files that are part of the Stargazer theme should be displayed as links to the right of the page. Find the file content/content.php and click it. This file will now load into the editor * Search for `
` (will be there twice in the file) and comment the following lines below it * ``` > ``` * to appear as * ``` ``` * PS: This will affect only regular posts, if you are posting galleries, audio etc. other files will have to be edited * Regarding the second question, WordPress has a feature called Live Preview. From your themes page, hover over any theme screenshot. You will see a button called` Live Preview` which will show you how that theme looks with your site content. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-to-remove-date-time-author/#post-5012412) * **thecodeisclear**: Thank you contributing to the forums but please do not encourage people to edit theme files directly. At best, they will lose all of their changes when they update the theme. At worst, they could bring their site down. They should be recommended to create a [child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) or use a [custom CSS plugin](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=custom+css) for their changes. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-to-remove-date-time-author/#post-5012413) * **[@ang333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ang333/)**: Please post in [https://wordpress.org/support/theme/stargazer/](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/stargazer/) * [Ramesh (thecodeisclear)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thecodeisclear/) * (@thecodeisclear) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-to-remove-date-time-author/#post-5012414) * **[@esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)**: Yes, you are right. Sorry about that. Got caught in trying to fix the problem that I didn’t realize potential pitfalls. * Thread Starter [ang333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ang333/) * (@ang333) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-to-remove-date-time-author/#post-5012419) * I haven’t written any posts yet so nothing is going to come crashing down. I went to the stargazer support page but there doesn’t seem to be a way to look up how to change the date. There isn’t a search window. I was told that WordPress was user friendly but it’s more for technical people than the average user. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-to-remove-date-time-author/#post-5012420) * Please **post** in [https://wordpress.org/support/theme/stargazer/](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/stargazer/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Plugin to remove date, time, author?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [remove date](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/remove-date/) * [time](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/time/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-to-remove-date-time-author/#post-5012420) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics