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How To Remove the Date From Your WordPress Blog Sitewide…Plus

April 20, 2020 by Nancy Fields Leave a Comment

big broom sweeping dates off calendar concept blog post How To Remove Dates From Your WordPress Blog Sitewide
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Why Remove Blog Dates?

Dated content can seem old and no longer relevant, even if that is NOT the case.

If you don’t blog regularly and your last post is years old, remove the date to make your content ‘evergreen.’

Blog Post Dates Can Show Up in Three Different Places

  1. Excerpts on your Home page
  2. Excerpts on your Blog page
  3. On each Blog Post
Three screenshot views of where blog post dates can show up on WordPress 2019

How To Remove Your Blog Post Dates Sitewide — All At Once

This will remove your blog dates from all three places on the WordPress 2019 theme: (1) excerpts on Home page (2) Excerpts on Blog page (3) Blog Post

Go to your WordPress Dashboard —> Settings —> General

  1. Under Date Format select Custom:
  2. Delete F j, Y
  3. Click Save
WordPress 2019 screenshot of Date Format in Settings with areas highlighted to show how to remove blog post dates sitewide

How To Remove Dates From Each Blog Post Only

Go to your WordPress Dashboard —> Appearance —> Customize

  1. Select Additional CSS
  2. Add code this code: .entry-meta .entry-date.published {
    display: none;
    }
  3. Click Publish
WordPress 2019 blog page screen shot plus visual instructions how to remove blog date

NOTE: This code will remove all the meta data on your Blog Post: author name, date, Leave a comment
.entry-meta {
display: none;
}


How To Remove Blog Dates from Excerpts on Your Home Page

If you have a sampling of on your latest blogs on your homepage, and would like to remove the date, you’ll need to edit your homepage.

WordPress 2019 screen shots of blog excerpts on home page with areas highlighted to show how to remove the blog post date

Home page —> Edit —> Select Blog Excerpts area

  1. Select Block
  2. Click toggle button: when you click the button, it will turn from blue to white and your Blog dates will be removed
  3. Click Update button

Watch Me Remove Blog Dates From WordPress 2019

If you’d like to watch me remove blog dates, check out my video from my live 10-Minute Monday training.

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