Disable Author / Date Link on Entry Meta in Single Post / Archive Pages

Hi there,

So the main difference is the comment count? Would you like to add it to the single posts, or remove it from the archives?

You'll need to disable the links inside the same function you're using to re-order them. Any chance you can share your function and I can tweak it for you?

Let me know :)

Hi Tom,

I reordered the meta data with these two snippets:

add_filter( 'generate_post_author', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'generate_show_comments', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'generate_post_date_output', 'tu_fancy_byline' );
function tu_fancy_byline( $date ) {
	printf( ' <span class="byline">%1$s</span>',
		sprintf( '<span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">%4$s<a href="%1$s" title="%2$s" rel="author"><span class="author-name" itemprop="name">%3$s</span></a></span>',
			esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
			esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'generatepress' ), get_the_author() ) ),
			esc_html( get_the_author() ),
			get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) )
		)
	);

	if ( ! is_single() && ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) ) {
		echo '<span class="comments-link">';
			comments_popup_link( __( 'Leave a comment', 'generatepress' ), __( '1 Comment', 'generatepress' ), __( '% Comments', 'generatepress' ) );
		echo '</span>';
	}

	echo $date;
}

Second Snippet:

add_filter( 'generate_post_date_output', 'lh_single_comments_link' );
function lh_single_comments_link( $date ) {
  
    echo $date;

	if ( is_single() && ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) ) {
		echo '<span class="comments-link">';
			comments_popup_link( __( 'Leave a comment', 'generatepress' ), __( '1 Comment', 'generatepress' ), __( '% Comments', 'generatepress' ) );
		echo '</span>';
	}	
}

Now my target is to disable the author-link and the date-link in the meta data - shown in single post and on archive pages.

Thanks a lot
Jasmina

Hi there,

Try this as your function (and remove the second one):

add_filter( 'generate_post_author', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'generate_show_comments', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'generate_post_date_output', 'tu_fancy_byline', 10, 2 );
function tu_fancy_byline( $date, $time_string ) {
    printf( ' <span class="byline">%1$s</span>',
        sprintf( '<span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">%4$s<span class="author-name" itemprop="name">%3$s</span></span>',
            esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) ) ),
            esc_attr( sprintf( __( 'View all posts by %s', 'generatepress' ), get_the_author() ) ),
            esc_html( get_the_author() ),
            get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) )
        )
    );

    if ( ! post_password_required() && ( comments_open() || get_comments_number() ) ) {
        echo '<span class="comments-link">';
            comments_popup_link( __( 'Leave a comment', 'generatepress' ), __( '1 Comment', 'generatepress' ), __( '% Comments', 'generatepress' ) );
        echo '</span>';
    }

    printf( '<span class="posted-on">%s</span>',
        $time_string
    );
}

Thanks a lot, Tom! :) Copied your function an removed the 2nd one.

Now I´m just missing the "Comments"-Part in meta data on single posts. Take a look - there are just author + date > example https://www.seniorpfoten.de/nasenbluten-hund/

I just edited the function above: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/disable-author-date-link-on-entry-meta-in-single-post-archive-pages/#post-810568

Let me know if it does the trick :)

Great! :-) It works

Excellent support!
Tanks a lot

You're welcome :)