Remove ‘Leave a Comment’ Link In Genesis

In this short post, Digimanx will share how to remove ‘Leave a Comment’ link in WordPress. Also to modify the position. Here, we will use three methods. The first method is by using CSS code to remove ‘Leave a Comment’ link in WordPress. The second method is using a WordPress plugin. If you are using Genesis Themes. And the third method is by using PHP.

Let’s start with how to use CSS code to delete link 🙂

Use CSS to remove ‘Leave a Comment’ link

If you prefer to not using a plugin just to remove that Goddamn link after your (WP – Author’s) name. Then This simple CSS code should make ‘Leave a Comment’ link in the entry header will vanish.

Just copy and paste CSS code below into WP Built-in CSS Editor

.entry-header .entry-meta .entry-comments-link {
   display: none;
}

Yes! as simple as that. What do you expecting? A complex high–class coding skill?

And the link should now vanish and what left is just post/entry dates and author links. Don’t forget to click on Publish to save the change you’ve made.

Using WordPress Plugins to Remove ‘Leave a Comment’ Links

The second method is by using a WordPress plugin who is especially for Genesis themes. The plugins name is Genesis Simple Edits.

You can simply go to Plugin page in your WP Admin. And search for ‘Genesis Simple Edits’ plugins.

Install and activate the plugins. Then go to Genesis Simple Edits settings page. On your WP Admin Dashboard, in left panel menu go to Genesis > Simple Edits.

In Simple Edits Setting page, in Entry Meta (above content) section delete the short code for [post_comments].

Unless you want to delete em all let the rest just the way it is. So, it should look like in the screenshot below:

Use PHP (Genesis Theme only)

The last method is using PHP code. This code is only for the Genesis theme only. Below is the default code.

//* Customize the entry meta in the entry header (requires HTML5 theme support)
add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'sp_post_info_filter' );
function sp_post_info_filter($post_info) {
  $post_info = '[post_date] by [post_author_posts_link] [post_comments] [post_edit]';
  return $post_info;
}

You see there shortcode for [post_date] by [post_author_posts_link] [post_comments] [post_edit].

So! simply remove [post_comments] shortcode, and Leave a Comment link will be gone.

You can also reverse the position of the entry header. For example, if you want to show the author link before post date. So the code will look like this;

/* Customize the entry meta in the entry header (requires HTML5 theme support)
add_filter( 'genesis_post_info', 'sp_post_info_filter' );
function sp_post_info_filter($post_info) {
  $post_info = 'By [post_author_posts_link] / [post_date] [post_edit]';
  return $post_info;
}

The PHP code should be placed at the end of function.php in Appearance > Themes editor. And the result in the front end should look like this: By Your name / January 4, 2019.

Note

If you are using WordPress theme other than the Genesis Framework and want to remove ‘Leave a Comment’ link using CSS.

Please find for the similar class for entry-header, entry-meta and the entry-comment-link in your Themes CSS Editor. And just set the display to none like in the example above.

Okay, that’s it! hope you found this short post is useful. Thanks for stopping by 🙂