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Yup. Thanks!

Thanks!

Most Excellent! Thank you.

Yeah guys, I see your points. It’s definitely not poetry, but it’s just plain easier for me to do. I’m not a power user, obviously, so you’ll have to forgive my preference for hacks. Or not. Thanks for the feedback, though.

That’s good point! I’ll make sure to keep an eye out for that. As a matter of fact, I’m going to suggest to the team in the Kvetch section to consider removing the “:” colon from the “post-template.php” doc. That way, users will be able to decide what comes after the meta-key when they enter the name of the key in the Admin panel.

Thanks again!

Hi everyone,

It seems I’ve found the answer to my question. Although both MichaelH and Dgold have great insight into the inner workings of WordPress, I have a simpler solution to my problem.

The problem: How do I remove the colon : from the post-meta-key in my template?

The (simple) answer:

In the wordpress>wp-includes folder there is a file called “post-template.php”.

Open that file in a text editor.

Do a search in that file for this line of code:

echo apply_filters('the_meta_key', "<li><span class='post-meta-key'>$key:</span> $value</li>\n", $key, $value);

Where is says $key:, simply remove the “:” colon.

With this method, you can control your post-meta-key in all sorts of neat ways!

Dgold,

Thanks for the detailed instructions! However, it seems strange that such a simple change requires such a weird workaround, no? The problem I have is that I still want to use the get_meta include put simply change the parameters a bit. Is there maybe a wp include file that I could edit?

Again, thanks for the help!