A few days ago I received another interesting question from one of my readers ... He was looking for a simple method of removing the standard blog features from his Wordpress website ...

But let's start with the obvious question ... Why disable blog features in Wordpress?

I know ... On first hearing, it may sound weird ... After all, Wordpress is known as the best blogging platform ...

And it is! If you want to start a blog, Wordpress is your best choice.

But Wordpress is not a just a "simple" blogging platform ... Wordpress is also the best CMS (Content Management System) in the world. And some websites really don’t need blog features ... In fact, that's the point: with Wordpress you can build ANY kind of website.

In other words: Wordpress is completely capable of building websites without using any blogging features at all. And the truth is that building websites with no blogs or any blogging related elements it's a very common scenario among Wordpress users. Personally, I have several Wordpress-based websites without any blogging features ...

But there's a small "problem" ... While many blog features (posts, categories, tags, comments, etc) can be easily "removed" from the front end, they will still be visible in the admin area. And that can be very annoying and confusing ...

The point: if you don't need blog features, it's always better to "convert" your Wordpress installation into a "regular", non-blogging content management system. Relax, it's easier than you think ... It can be done with a few simple clicks, without writing any code ...

This is is why I've decided to create this short tutorial where I will show you how to easily disable the standard blog features on your Wordpress website.

Interested?

Let's do this!



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Ragman1 Premium
Thanks for the tutorial. Robert
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smartketeer Premium
Thanks for the time Robert!
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BorisRoman Premium Plus
Another great training, Zsolt!

All the best!

Bob
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smartketeer Premium
Once again, thanks for the time Bob!
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DetailsD Premium Plus
I think you're the one I asked about this yesterday :) I need to remove my email address from each blog post but it requires going into the code and I really don't want to break my site by accident. It sounds like your tutorial will cover this, thanks!
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smartketeer Premium
Thank YOU!
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DetailsD Premium Plus
So here's my GOOD NEWS: It deleted the 'admin' byline and my email address from all posts at the bottom! yay!! :)

The bad news ... it did not delete the date and posted by admin at the top of each page. It could be because I have multiple theme editors or because my version of WP is 5.2 (the latest). I tried posting new pages from both Site Content here on WA, and also directly within WP but it didn't work.

I'll try to figure this out somehow but this is a great start just to not have my email address appear. Thanks again!
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smartketeer Premium
The date and the author archive is called meta data. The way they are displayed is usually theme-related. If you can't find any related options in your theme customizer, then you can hide them by adding the following CSS code in the Custom CSS option of your theme on the below path.

Admin Area -> Appearance -> Customize -> Additional CSS

.entry-header .entry-meta {
display: none;
}
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B2water Premium
A1 Job Zed !
You know your WordPress ! 👍
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smartketeer Premium
Thanks for the time Bruce!
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dowj01 Premium
This is something I had never thought about but can see how useful it would be for anyone wanting a non-blogging management system. Great training.
Thanks, Justin
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smartketeer Premium
Thanks my friend!
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