[Resolved] Remove date of comments

[Juan Carlos]

Hello.

How can I hide de date of the comments? I dont want hide it with CSS, I want to remove because it is a best practice to SEO.

Thanks.

[Leo]

Hi there,

In that case you’d need a child theme and copy this function in the child theme’s function.php

if ( ! function_exists( 'generate_comment' ) ) {
	/**
	 * Template for comments and pingbacks.
	 *
	 * Used as a callback by wp_list_comments() for displaying the comments.
	 */
	function generate_comment( $comment, $args, $depth ) {
		$args['avatar_size'] = apply_filters( 'generate_comment_avatar_size', 50 );

		if ( 'pingback' == $comment->comment_type || 'trackback' == $comment->comment_type ) : ?>

		<li id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>" <?php comment_class(); ?>>
			<div class="comment-body">
				<?php _e( 'Pingback:', 'generatepress' ); // WPCS: XSS OK. ?> <?php comment_author_link(); ?> <?php edit_comment_link( __( 'Edit', 'generatepress' ), '<span class="edit-link">', '</span>' ); ?>
			</div>

		<?php else : ?>

		<li id="comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>" <?php comment_class( empty( $args['has_children'] ) ? '' : 'parent' ); ?>>
			<article id="div-comment-<?php comment_ID(); ?>" class="comment-body" <?php generate_do_microdata( 'comment-body' ); ?>>
				<footer class="comment-meta">
					<?php
					if ( 0 != $args['avatar_size'] ) {
						echo get_avatar( $comment, $args['avatar_size'] );
					}
					?>
					<div class="comment-author-info">
						<div class="comment-author vcard" <?php generate_do_microdata( 'comment-author' ); ?>>
							<?php printf( '<cite itemprop="name" class="fn">%s</cite>', get_comment_author_link() ); ?>
						</div><!-- .comment-author -->

						<div class="entry-meta comment-metadata">
							<a href="<?php echo esc_url( get_comment_link( $comment->comment_ID ) ); ?>">
							</a>
							<?php edit_comment_link( __( 'Edit', 'generatepress' ), '<span class="edit-link">| ', '</span>' ); ?>
						</div><!-- .comment-metadata -->
					</div><!-- .comment-author-info -->

					<?php if ( '0' == $comment->comment_approved ) : ?>
						<p class="comment-awaiting-moderation"><?php _e( 'Your comment is awaiting moderation.', 'generatepress' ); // WPCS: XSS OK. ?></p>
					<?php endif; ?>
				</footer><!-- .comment-meta -->

				<div class="comment-content" itemprop="text">
					<?php
					/**
					 * generate_before_comment_content hook.
					 *
					 * @since 2.4
					 *
					 */
					do_action( 'generate_before_comment_text', $comment, $args, $depth );

					comment_text();

					/**
					 * generate_after_comment_content hook.
					 *
					 * @since 2.4
					 *
					 */
					do_action( 'generate_after_comment_text', $comment, $args, $depth );
					?>
				</div><!-- .comment-content -->
			</article><!-- .comment-body -->
		<?php
		endif;
	}
}

[Juan Carlos]

Would it work if I add the code in the Code Snippets plugin?

[Leo]

Unfortunately not. I actually just tested this and confirmed with Tom.

Child theme is needed until we add a filter in the future.

[Juan Carlos]

It works.

Thanks!

[Leo]

No problem 🙂

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