REMOVE (not mask) post date / meta

The easiest thing to do would be to create a child theme and then modify the functions that output the date and metadata in your child theme’s functions.php:

function twentysixteen_entry_date() {
  return null;
}

function twentysixteen_entry_taxonomies() {
  return null;
}

Thank you so much. That does exactly what I need. I don’t know why WP or individual theme designers don’t have a readily available simple check-box option to turn on/off functions such as post date, etc.?

One more question, please and thank you: Would you know how to make the same work in themify-base theme? I tried using the same code, but changing ‘twentysixteen’ to ‘themify-base’ but no luck. I didn’t think it would work just changing the theme name like that, as I’m sure different themes call things differently, but I thought I’d try it.

For Themify Base, you’ll have to do something a bit different. In your child theme, copy the file includes/loop.php from the parent theme to the same place in your child theme, and then delete lines 35 and 41-56:

<time datetime="<?php the_time('o-m-d') ?>" class="post-date"><?php echo get_the_date( apply_filters( 'themify_loop_date', '' ) ) ?></time>

and

<?php if ( ! is_attachment() ) : ?>
  <p class="post-meta">
    <span class="post-author"><?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></span>

    <?php the_terms( get_the_id(), 'category', ' <span class="post-category">', ', ', '</span>' ); ?>

    <?php the_tags( ' <span class="post-tag">', ', ', '</span>' ); ?>

    <?php if ( comments_open() ) : ?>
      <span class="post-comment">
        <?php comments_popup_link( __( '0 Comments', 'themify' ), __( '1 Comment', 'themify' ), __( '% Comments', 'themify' ) ); ?>
      </span>
    <?php endif; //post comment ?>
  </p>
  <!-- /.post-meta -->
<?php endif; ?>

In your particular case, though, you might be better off using static pages instead of a blog. Most themes don’t display the date or other meta information on static pages.

Thank you so very much. This has finally brought an end to DAYS of trial and error and frustration. It all works perfectly. Greatly appreciated.

In reference to: “you might be better off using static pages instead of a blog. Most themes don’t display the date or other meta information on static pages,” I set my Home page as the landing page and set it to static. As you said, the date and other meta information does not appear. But now, how do I remove the Home title? It’s a bit obnoxious!

As you (stephencottontail) were such a huge help previously I’m hopeful that you might have a solution also (I’m sure you do) to removing the same info (post meta / date – categories list) from all displays within the Quill theme. To me it looks yet different again from the two you previously helped with … just to make it even more confusing. Yet again, to me it seems like a relatively simple/common option – and I frequently see postings asking how to do it – and I’m amazed that theme developers in all their myriad options and updates still do not include options for things like turning on/off the display of date and/or other meta data.

Thank you very much for any assistance you can provide (again). ??