showing comments link in meta

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner!

Can you share the functions you're currently using along with any CSS (relating to this topic)?

Just need to get an idea of what could be conflicting.

the function which i am using is with this css code.

This function is causing the conflict:

if ( ! function_exists( 'generate_posted_on' ) ) :
/**
 * Prints HTML with meta information for the current post-date/time and author.
 */
function generate_posted_on() {

	if ( 'post' !== get_post_type() ) 
		return;
		
	$time_string = '<time class="entry-date published" datetime="%1$s" itemprop="datePublished">%2$s</time>';
	if ( get_the_time( 'U' ) !== get_the_modified_time( 'U' ) )
		$time_string .= '<time class="updated" datetime="%3$s" itemprop="dateModified">%4$s</time>';

	$time_string = sprintf( $time_string,
		esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_date() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_modified_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_modified_date() )
	);

	printf( __( '<span class="posted-on">%1$s</span> <span class="byline">%2$s</span>', 'generatepress' ),
		sprintf( '%1$s',
			$time_string
		),
		sprintf( '<span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">%1$s <span class="author-name" itemprop="name">%2$s</span></span>',
			__( 'by','generatepress'),
			esc_html( get_the_author() )
		)
	);
}
endif;

If you remove it, does the function Leo provided work?

thanks a lot tom. yes now it does work.

Can you turn off your caching plugin? I'm still seeing the old way you had set up.

So just to confirm, you want:

1. Only the modified date to show up in the source if it's been modified, otherwise you want the published date to show up. Only 1 of the 2 should appear in the source at a time.

2. The date and author shouldn't have links.

3. The comment count should be appended at the end of the line.

Correct?

i have flushed the cache of this link from the server. can you refresh it and check again.

please do refresh if you do not see the changes.

You have two different posted-on elements for some reason. Are you sure there aren't any other functions hiding somewhere?

If you want the structure to look like this: Date by author | comments

You can do this:

add_filter( 'generate_post_date_output','tu_remove_date_link', 10, 2 );
function tu_remove_date_link( $output, $time_string ) {
	printf( '<span class="posted-on">%s</span>',
		$time_string
	);
}

add_filter( 'generate_post_author_output','tu_no_author_link' );
function tu_no_author_link() {
    printf( ' <span class="byline">%1$s</span>',
        sprintf( '<span class="author vcard" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author">%1$s <span class="fn n author-name" itemprop="name">%4$s</span></span>',
            __( 'by','generatepress'),
            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() )
        )
    );

    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>';
    }
}

I don't understand this part:

actually both should appear in the source code, but in the creative work and hatom fields, only the updated date should appear

Where would the published date appear in this case?

hi tom

i added the code you have given and its looking good now.

To show the updated date to humans, this should be all that's necessary: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/show-the-updated-post-date/

We can try removing the structured data from the published date if a modified date exists by replacing this function:

add_filter( 'generate_post_date_output', 'tu_remove_date_link', 10, 2 );
function tu_remove_date_link( $output, $time_string ) {
    printf( '<span class="posted-on">%s</span>',
        $time_string
    );
}

With this:

add_filter( 'generate_post_date_output', function( $output, $time_string ) {
	$time_string = '<time class="entry-date published" datetime="%1$s" itemprop="datePublished">%2$s</time>';
	
	if ( get_the_time( 'U' ) !== get_the_modified_time( 'U' ) ) {
		$time_string = '<time class="updated" datetime="%3$s" itemprop="dateModified">%4$s</time><time class="entry-date published">%2$s</time>';
	}
	
	$time_string = sprintf( $time_string,
		esc_attr( get_the_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_date() ),
		esc_attr( get_the_modified_date( 'c' ) ),
		esc_html( get_the_modified_date() )
	);

	return sprintf( '<span class="posted-on">%s</span>', // WPCS: XSS ok, sanitization ok.
		$time_string
	);
}, 10, 2 );

thanks a ton tom. you have really gone out of the way to help me out. wish you all the best and great success. i do have some issues with styling, but that for later. i will try on my own and if i am not able to do, then i will post in forum. thanks again.

one issue here. the updated date is getting linked. how i do get rid of the link from the date.

There must be another function conflicting. The function we're using above completely removes the link. Is there another post date filter in there?

thanks tom. there was a function which you had given earlier. i have removed it.

for this url i have flushed the cache.