Modify post-meta output?

You’d better not change the php files if you don’t know what you do.
You can set a custom post meta for every post and also custom post meta format using this plugin: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Are we talking about the same thing? I’m just talking about changing the formatting of the date, author, etc, in WP when you’re looking at a blog post.

I also changed that for Page. As I see no reason for page to show when was the page create and by who.

Anyway, for page, you can change it in post-meta-page.php

create separate functions.php in child theme (child theme functions.php is read before the parent functions.php file; as opposed to child theme CSS file is read after parent CSS file.)

place responsive_post_meta_data code below in new child theme functions.php file.

modify the function “responsive_post_meta_data” HTML parts.

to modify the style of the “responsive_post_meta_data” function in child theme CSS style sheet; I turned off the “comment[down arrow]” link using the CSS…

.comments-link {
	display:none;
}

/**
* This function prints post meta data.
*
* Ulrich Pogson Contribution
*
*/

responsive_post_meta_data

if (!function_exists('responsive_post_meta_data')) :

function responsive_post_meta_data() {
	printf( __( '<span class="%1$s">Posted on </span>%2$s<span class="%3$s"> by </span>%4$s', 'responsive' ),
	'meta-prep meta-prep-author posted',
	sprintf( '<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="bookmark"><span class="timestamp">%3$s</span></a>',
		esc_url( get_permalink() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
		esc_html( get_the_date() )
	),
	'byline',
	sprintf( '<span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>',
		get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ),
		sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'responsive' ), get_the_author() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_author() )
		)
	);
}
endif;

This was my modification to the parent function “responsive_post_meta_data”… removed “Posted On” text, removed hyperlink to “date” and “author”, and added line break after “date”.

modified child theme CSS to close up line-height.

.post-meta {
	clear: both;
	color: #000;
	font-size: 21px;
	line-height: 21px;
	margin-bottom: 0;
}

my modified “responsive_post_meta_data” function.

if ( ! function_exists( 'responsive_post_meta_data' ) ) :

function responsive_post_meta_data() {
	printf( __( '<span class="%1$s"></span>%2$s<span class="%3$s"><br /> by </span>%4$s', 'responsive' ),
	'meta-prep meta-prep-author posted',
	sprintf( '<span class="timestamp">%3$s</span>',
		esc_url( get_permalink() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_time() ),
		esc_html( get_the_date() )
	),
	'byline',
	sprintf( '<span class="author vcard">%3$s</span>',
		get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ),
		sprintf( esc_attr__( 'View all posts by %s', 'responsive' ), get_the_author() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_author() )
		)
	);
}
endif;

Super helpful. Thanks so much ggarmento.

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