Title: Remove “Started by: ” from Topic
Last modified: October 23, 2019

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# Remove “Started by: ” from Topic

 *  Resolved [stoffer_dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stoffer_dev/)
 * (@stoffer_dev)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-started-by-from-topic/)
 * Hi, thanks for a great plugin 🙂
 * Is it possible to remove “Started by: <user>” under all Topics?
 * Best regards
    Christopher

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 *  [Chuckie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajtruckle/)
 * (@ajtruckle)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-started-by-from-topic/#post-12058274)
 * This is not tested, but you could use custom CSS:
 *     ```
       #bbpress-forums p.bbp-topic-meta {
         display:none;
       }
       ```
   
 * I think that would effectively hide the whole little section of information.
 *  Thread Starter [stoffer_dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stoffer_dev/)
 * (@stoffer_dev)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-started-by-from-topic/#post-12060109)
 * Okay, thanks 🙂
    Are there any other suggestions 🙂 ?
 *  Plugin Author [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-started-by-from-topic/#post-12060469)
 * The best way would be to amend the loop-single-topic template
 * so if you wanted to amend loop-single-topic you would do the following
 * create a directory on your theme called ‘bbpress’
    ie wp-content/themes/%your-
   theme-name%/bbpress
 * where %your-theme-name% is the name of your theme
 * find
    wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/bbpress/loop-single-topic.
   php Make a copy of this file, and put in in the directory called bbpress that
   you created above, so you end up with wp-content/themes/%your-theme-name%/bbpress/
   loop-single-topic.php bbPress will now use this template instead of the original
   and you can amend this
 * then you can amend line 60 to take this out
 *  Thread Starter [stoffer_dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stoffer_dev/)
 * (@stoffer_dev)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-started-by-from-topic/#post-12060651)
 * Hi Robin 🙂
 * Thank you for your reply. I guess you are the same Robin W that is active at “
   bbpress.org”. So, to begin with, thank you very much for being so helpfull regarding
   bbpress in general 🙂
 * Regarding your answer, which is really helpfull, would it be best to do it in
   a Child Theme perhaps 🙂 ?
 *  Plugin Author [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-started-by-from-topic/#post-12060728)
 * yes, always in a child theme is best
 *  Thread Starter [stoffer_dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stoffer_dev/)
 * (@stoffer_dev)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-started-by-from-topic/#post-12060772)
 * Alright. Thanks Robin 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [6 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-started-by-from-topic/#post-12062826)
 * 🙂

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