By Steady on

I am trying to configure the theme to NOT show the authoring information for Page or Story.

I don't want "Authored by:" or "Authored on:" to appear. It serves no purpose for me and my site.

I am the only author on my site and do not need this information appearing.

When I uncheck or check the global settings checkboxes under "Display post information on" section of the Administer Site Building page nothing changes. Authoring information is still shown as an option when creating content.

This is the same no matter what theme I am using.

Surely there should be a simple default override for this.

What am I missing?

Again, I have spent over an hour trying to find this "simple" solution.

The only thing I could find was to down load yet another module called form filter or webform.

Is this really the only solution?

Please help a frustrated idiot.

Thanks,
Sam

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Comments

davemybes’s picture

davemybes commented

You would need to have a custom module do a hook_form_alter to remove the field in the node edit form. However, that's not necessary as unchecking the Post settings in the theme global settings will remove the authoring information from being displayed, which is all that is necessary.

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Steady’s picture

Steady commented

You are quite right :-)

I never realised that it was actually removing it visually when the page was created and displayed. (Even though the filed was still there on the form when creating the content initially).

Very frustrating.

Perhaps it should be made clearer on the global settings page what it actually does.

Something like: "this removes the authoring information from showing up on the page when published, but the field is still present on the create content form".

etc.

So thank you very much for your reply.

Sam