How to hide just tags from the footer in twenty-twelve theme

Can you post a link that shows this?

href=”https://www.artmatthewsonlinepianolessons.com/ac-33-guest-speakers-tips-on-reading-and-sight-reading-part-two/”> shows the whole line hidden. I’d like to be able to see “This post in (category) was posted on etc.” without the tags showing.

I’m hoping that this would mean that the tags are still being used for searching, just not visible at the bottom of each post.

No what I meant was can you post a link to your site where the tags are showing.

Sorry.

Sorry that you can’t? Not sure what your sorry about.

The link didn’t show up as a link

https://www.artmatthewsonlinepianolessons.com/ac-35-intervalics-101-2nds/

Look for this line in your functions.php file:

$tag_list = get_the_tag_list( '', __( ', ', 'twentytwelve' ) );

and just comment it out like this:

//$tag_list = get_the_tag_list( '', __( ', ', 'twentytwelve' ) );

Ok, thanks. I don’t have to make a new functions.php and put it in my child directory?

Yes, you should follow the best practices here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

ok, do I put the whole segment in the new functions.php, or just the commented-out line? Or the whole functions.php test and then comment out the line?

If you are using ftp, then you can try any of those to see if they work since you can upload the functions.php file if needed. Don’t be afraid to experiment with your site. This is how we learn.

True enough! Thanks for your help!