Why can’t all the setting be done on the, er… settings page?

Thanks!!

I would also like to lose the date option on my news items.

I downloaded and added your plugin and activated it. I then edited it as per your instructions. However due to the permissions settings it wasn’t possible to save the changes in WordPress.

So I then edited it via the back end of my website using text wrangler. The changes then appeared on the text of the plugin on my website, so I know I managed to do it ok.

However the date is still showing. I am now wondering whether I did the correct editing? I set the date to expire on the post after 2 days but left the other lines alone.

I didn’t edit anything in the area where it said don’t edit below this line.

Any help would be appreciated (and thank you for taking the time to make this plugin)

I also added a custom field/value.

I’m not sure what else to do to get this action to be effective in WP 3.0. Any ideas? Thank you in advance for your consideration.

[quote]`Upload the date-exclusion.php file to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory is like giving someone directions to Alaska by saying
`Turn left when you get to Canada. I have NO idea how to find my wp-content/plugins directory…[/quote]

then you probably have a wordpress.COM account. You have to have a wordpress.ORG account and learn/read (google! for instance) what wordpress is about. When you’ve never have been to Canada, and are planning to go there, you read about it, don’t you?

Like Steve (comment #30) & Trey (#58, #61) I like having dates on all the posts except the one or two sticky posts at the top of the homepage. Dates are very important on my blog, but having a date on the Welcome sticky really hits the visitor with an impression that the blog hasn’t been updated since Abel was in diapers.

The instructions on how to edit the code to be able to select which posts don’t display a date just aren’t clear enough.

Specific instructions, line by line, such as:
Log into your WordPress dashboard
Click on
Then do this
Then do that
…as opposed to First go to Canada, then turn left…
much needed and deeply appreciated.

Please? and Thanks.

2. In your WordPress dashboard, select Plug-ins, Add New…

…and so forth.

Thanks!

“Upload the date-exclusion.php file to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory”

is like giving someone directions to Alaska by saying

“Turn left when you get to Canada.”

I have NO idea how to find my wp-content/plugins directory. I don’t have a clear idea how to upload it to that file if I knew where the destination folder was. I can’t be the only one who needs step-by-step instructions that assume no prior knowledge, start at A and proceed to Z without skipping any steps.

…I’ve been searching everywhere for this

But my site was left with this text displaying where the date was: “Updated at Least WeeklyUpdated at LeastWeekly.” I originally did enter ‘Updated at Least Weekly” as the text to display in place of the date on the front page.

In addition, at the top of sidebar 1 right above my 1st widget, the text repeats again and looks like so: WeeklyUpdated at Least WeeklyUpdated at Least WeeklyUpdated at Least WeeklyUpdated at Least WeeklyUpdated at Least WeeklyUpdated at Least WeeklyUpdated at Least WeeklyUpdated at Least WeeklyUpdated at Least WeeklyUpdated at Least WeeklyUpdated at Least WeeklyUpdated at Least WeeklyUpdated at Least Weekly.

It only appears in IE. Firefox looks fine.

Please tell me what to do to get rid of this. The plugin is gone and that text is still there – in IE. I’m using WordPress 2.9.1.

Anybody help me.

I reset 0 to 3650 – ten years! Nine years from now I’ll have to change it, but now whenever I want to exclude a date from a post, I custom enter a posting date of 1910 (one hundred years ago…just to be safe). IT WORKS!

Where do I do this in the plugin php code? I created a custom field called “exclude_date” but that accomplished nothing.

I saw that Pranab had the same problem.

If you are interrested in the date exlusion follow me “guitarhabits” on twitter and search for the word “date exclusion” on my page.

I’ll show you what to do. I’ll put it on right now.

Klaus Tol

You know what does work?

search for this line:

in 4 pages: archive.php, index.php, page.php and single.php and replace it for:

Your dates are now gone in all the posts. Also in the categories.

Date is gone on all the pages.

Error! Options page not found.

A number of people have asked for an example of how to set to a custom field? I ask for the same, please!

For those that’s didn’t make the whole things work. Note that you need to create a new directory [Which is a new folder] within the plugin folder to make it work.

Example : public_html/wp_content/plugins folder/removetimestamp -> upload the date_exclusion into the folder [removetimestamp] and follow what it’s mention should do the trick. Hope this help

Any ideas?

I want to exclude the date on one specific post, but it is not working.

Using the info listed above, I went to my post and added a custom field called exclude_date, typed yes in the value, updated, and then published the post. The date STILL shows below the title of the post.

PLEASE HELP!!!! Thanks.

I followed the info in the Configuration section above: I went to edit the post, added a custom field called exclude_date, typed yes in the value, updated, and then published the post.

The page of the post still shows the date below the title. Please help.. thanks!

I have fixed the problems with the conflicts with WordPress 2.7 and incorporated the suggestions here.

It is now checked into the WordPress Plugins Repository called Date Exclusion SEO. ( the name has to change because of conflict)

Thanks

All you have to do is to open the index.php file of your theme and look for the line:

These are the functions that output the time/date. Just delete or comment them out.

Done!

// Add the names of any date-related functions you use in your templates
$deactivated_functions = array(‘the_date’, ‘the_time’);

to this:

// Add the names of any date-related functions you use in your templates
$deactivated_functions = array(‘the_date’, ‘the_time’, ‘get_the_time’);

See the extra function on the end? I looked in my theme’s files and it was using “get_the_time” instead of just “the_time”.

Hope that helps:)

I want comments with date.

So here is what I came up with-I know its retarded but it worked. In the CCS file using trial and error I discovered the tag responsible for styling the date and I made the font-size 0.

here is a chunk of the code:

small {
font-family: ‘Trebuchet MS’;
font-size: 0.0em;/*used to be 0.9em*/
line-height: 1.5em;
}
Of course this may not work for some themes, but it works perfectly for mine!

Cheers

thanx gawd for these comments or i would of been pullin’ hair out of my head. soooo okay, post date doesn’t show if shown as an individual post- great.

i would like to know if a version is going to be made where a sticky post- on the home page can be viewed WITHOUT a datestamp? that would be cool.

alex alaska p

I don’t know what a Healty guy is.

Supposed to say Healthy Guy.

sorry

So I searched and found this page. Unfortunately a year later the Plugin has not been updated to do more than turn single post dates off. This wasn’t enough for what I want to accomplish with this project.

So I downloaded and installed the plug in (WP 2.5) and enabled it then turned on the feature with “Yes”. And the individual posts did in fact stop displaying dates. However there was a remnant from my template that did display and did not look good. And the dates were not removed from categories so it didn’t work on it’s own for my purpose.

So I backed up the templates index.php and archive.php files. Then I removed 2 lines of code from each that execute the display of date and time.

Next I edited the css file to remove the date png graphics.

And it appears everything is now working fine with no time or date in the way.

I am still using the plugin to disable display of time and date to the individual posts.

WordPress has so much more potential if they would include “simple” features like date removal so it could be used much easier for a wider variety of applications.