[alex.casinov777]

Greetings!

I want to delete URLs for Author and Date, but still, keep them visible. For example, at the moment I have this:

September 7, 2020 Alex Konst No Comments

Both data (Author name and date) are clickable. Yoast SEO can only remove these features, but I want to keep them, and just remove links, because at the moment, from my post there are 30+ outbound links (2 from the post breadcrumbs, 20 in a right sidebar, 10 in the footer).

Can you help me with that?

[Theme Horse Support Team]

Hi alex.casinov777,

To make the Date and Author not clickable then Please go to ‘Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS’ and paste the below Custom CSS code.

.entry-meta .author a,
.entry-meta .date a {
	pointer-events: none;
	cursor: default;
}

Thanks

[alex.casinov777]

Thanks, but it doesn’t solve the problem. It’s just hides the visual ability to click on links. Still, in the code part exist. I need to remove the links

[alex.casinov777]

for example

<div class="by-author vcard author"><a href="#">Matthew Gill</a> </div>
<a href="#">Matthew Gill</a>
<div class="by-author vcard author"><a href="#">Matthew Gill</a> </div>

[Theme Horse Support Team]

Ok if you want to remove the code as well then you have to remove the link from the code of every sections and widgets. As you know the code to remove the link but we recommend you to customize the after making the child theme so that you wont loose the customized code when updating the Theme to a newer Version in future.

Thanks

[alex.casinov777]

The problem is that I cant find a file that holds all data for the links :C can you help me where to dig?

[Theme Horse Support Team]

Go to theme directory > inc > function.php. On line no: 142 to 144, you will find the below line of codes.

$posted_on = '<a href="' . esc_url( get_permalink() ) . '" title="'. the_title_attribute('echo=0') . '">' . esc_html( $time_string ) . '</a> ';

		$byline = '<a href="' . esc_url( get_author_posts_url( get_the_author_meta('ID') ) ) . '">' . esc_html( get_the_author() ) . '</a> ';

Now replace the above code with the code provided below.

$posted_on = '<a href="#" title="'. the_title_attribute('echo=0') . '">' . esc_html( $time_string ) . '</a> ';

		$byline = '<a href="#">' . esc_html( get_the_author() ) . '</a> ';

Thanks

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