How to remove comments date through php

Hello if you don’t want it through CSS the only way to change the comments in general I guess is by making your own template so that will include your own PHP calls.

Since you mention that your theme has a comments template you can search for the get_comment_date() function if it exists somewhere in your theme. That’s what returns the date for display.

If your theme is free maybe you can link it so we can take a look in case that might help.

More info here as well: https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/template-files-section/partial-and-miscellaneous-template-files/comments/

Hey Xenos

Like I said there’s no such a code in the theme’s comments.php related to date (I could easily find and comment out the “posts date” from the theme’s template-tags.php but there’s no date code for comments in there either) I also tried looking for any dates through the theme files using Notepad C++ but I couldn’t find it anywhere else. it seems like this theme is getting the date directly from wp-includes/class-walker-comment.php…

here is the comments.php :

if ( post_password_required() ) {
	return;
}

if ( have_comments() ) : ?>

	<div id="comments" class="comments-area">

		<?php if ( have_comments() ) : ?>

			<header class="comments-header">

				<h2 class="comments-title">
					<?php comments_number( '', esc_html__( 'One Comment', 'napoli' ), esc_html__( '% comments', 'napoli' ) );?>
				</h2>

			</header><!-- .comment-header -->

			<?php the_comments_navigation(); ?>

			<ol class="comment-list">
				<?php
					wp_list_comments( array(
						'style'      => 'ol',
						'short_ping' => true,
						'avatar_size' => 56,
					) );
				?>
			</ol><!-- .comment-list -->

			<?php the_comments_navigation(); ?>

		<?php endif; // Check for have_comments(). ?>

		<?php
			// If comments are closed and there are comments, let's leave a little note, shall we?
		if ( ! comments_open() && '0' != get_comments_number() && post_type_supports( get_post_type(), 'comments' ) ) :
		?>
		<p class="no-comments"><?php esc_html_e( 'Comments are closed.', 'napoli' ); ?></p>
		<?php endif; ?>

	</div><!-- #comments -->

<?php endif;

if ( comments_open() ) :

	comment_form();

endif;

and here is the free theme:
https://www.ads-software.com/themes/napoli/

Because it’s missing a callback that’s why you can’t edit it.

BUT DO NOT FEAR ! I’m here to help you solve it.

Please add this function to your functions.php file ( prefered on your child theme )

function xkon_custom_comment($comment, $args, $depth) {
	if ( 'div' === $args['style'] ) {
		$tag       = 'div';
		$add_below = 'comment';
	} else {
		$tag       = 'li';
		$add_below = 'div-comment';
	}
	?>
	<<?php echo $tag; ?> <?php comment_class( empty( $args['has_children'] ) ? '' : 'parent' ); ?> id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>">
	<article id="div-comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>" class="comment-body">
		<footer class="comment-meta">
		<div class="comment-author vcard">
		<?php
		if ( 0 != $args['avatar_size'] ) {
			echo get_avatar( $comment, $args['avatar_size'] );
		}
		printf( __( '<b class="fn">%s</b> <span class="says">says:</span>' ), get_comment_author_link() );
		?>
		</div>
		<?php if ( '0' == $comment->comment_approved ) : ?>
			<em class="comment-awaiting-moderation"><?php _e( 'Your comment is awaiting moderation.' ); ?></em>
			<br />
		<?php endif; ?>
		<div class="comment-metadata">
		<?php edit_comment_link( __( 'Edit' ), '  ', '' ); ?>
		</div>
	</footer>
	<div class="comment-content">
	<?php comment_text(); ?>
	</div>
	<div class="reply">
		<?php
		comment_reply_link(
			array_merge(
				$args,
				array(
					'add_below' => $add_below,
					'depth' => $depth,
					'max_depth' => $args['max_depth'],
				)
			)
		);
		?>
	</div>
		</article>
	<?php
}

And on your comments.php replace the wp_list_comments function with this :

wp_list_comments( array(
	'style'      => 'ol',
	'short_ping' => true,
	'avatar_size' => 56,
	'callback' => 'xkon_custom_comment',
) );

The result would be removing the date but leaving the Edit. Everything else is styled accordingly to the Napoli theme :).

I’ve tested it locally and it works, but as always I’d recommend you to get a backup first of the files that you are editing.

That was amazing ! thank you so much

No problem at all! Glad I could help ??