How to remove the 'Posted by' and 'Leave a comment' links?

[gennario]

Hello,

I have a wordpres.com blog.

Could you tell me how to remove those links, in order to have a more clear page?

Thank you.

[Michael Martinez]

Just out of curiosity, why would you want to do that?

[gennario]

In order to have a more clear page.

[Guerreiro]

in the correct .php file in your theme folder. main.php and i think also single.php. you have to look around in there. Also someone who knows the EXACT answer please chime in.

[Michael Martinez]

In order to have a more clear page.

Well, I assume by that you mean you don't want people posting comments. So are you just wanting to use the CMS to create static, non-interactive pages?

I have no agenda -- there's no "Aha!" waiting the wings if you say the wrong thing. You've just piqued my interest in what you're doing with your site.

[Matt Geer]

Not sure if all themes are the same, but if you don't want people commenting on your blog you can simply check "no comments/trackbacks allowed" on each individual page as you write them. I believe that there is also a mass on/off switch which will turn all comments off leaving you with the option to turn individual ones on should you wish.

That would probably be the quickest way to accomplish that without risking messing any code up.

Hope that helps

[Guerreiro]

That would probably be easiest Matt. I always take the difficult path

[gennario]

Thanks, Matt.

To Michael Martinez,

Indeed I want to have more static, uncluttered pages, so the visitors could focus more easily on my conversion activities (e.g. images, buttons, links, etc.).

[Michael Martinez]

I struggle with Wordpress themes myself. I have never really found one that I like, and I'm no Web designer so I'll probably never create one I like. I do like the way I can move widgets and stuff around inside the design.

To me it's not so much that I don't want clutter on my pages -- it's that I want my clutter to make sense to people.

The aesthetic aspect of a Web site says a great deal about its purpose and lends it credibility. We sort of touched on that briefly in the SEO radio show Randy and I did with Jeremy a couple of weeks ago.

I'm just intellectually meandering at this point. I have a free blog on wordpress.com (that I maintain for marketing reasons) and I just changed its theme and widgets again this week. Your inquiry about disabling the comments and links on your site got me to thinking about random obscurities in site architecture.

[gennario]

Well, I think that people, when arriving on a page, don't want to know who published the content, or to leave a comment.

They want to see / read what they were looking for in the first place, and that's why I thought it could be a good move not to display those "Posted by" and "Comments" links.