Remove 'says' from comments.

removing or changing the word ‘says’ in comments can possibly be done with an addition to functions.php of your theme:

https://pastebin.com/VF0jNL7R

inspired by https://blog.ftwr.co.uk/archives/2010/01/02/mangling-strings-for-fun-and-profit/

Excellent. Thanks.

And a minor edit also removes the now-redundant colon.

Instead of this I added the following to the style sheet:

.says {display:none;}

‘display:none’ of course removes it from visible display in most – but not all – cases… but it’s still there in the code it can, in certain instances, still appear on-page.