Hide post meta data on a specific category

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I’m using the Canvas theme, and their framework.

I built a child theme and have my custom CSS segregated in a custom.css file in that directory. I’ve made some changes to one specific page layout file (loop-magazine.php) to pull posts from a specific category (id=7) from my database.

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I’ve asked Woothemes the following CSS question with no luck with their paid support. Let’s see if any smarties here can make this happen!

I want to hide the post metadata (author, date, comments, etc) on a specific category (id=7), such that the metadata never displays when those posts are viewed, either in excerpt mode or full-mode.

If hiding this data on a category basis isn’t possible, I’d settle for hiding the meta data anytime this page template (magazine) is used.

My preference is to hide it per the category so that I never worry about that meta data displaying, but I can live with the page approach.

Though I don’t know if that will help much.

Anybody out there used CSS to hide metadata by category?

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4 comments

  1. Posting the answer that was solved by OP in one of the comments. This way it’s easier to read it. Hopefully a moderator can mark the question as solved.

    .page-template-template-magazine-php .post-meta, .category-services .post-meta {
    display:none;
}

  2. Assuming that you category is ‘services” then;

    .category-services .post-meta {
    display:none;
}

    Or if using LESS

    .category-services {
     .post-meta {
         display:none;
     }
 }

    Each category is appended to the class structure of so if category is called ‘dog” it is appended as category-dog.

    In your case it is

    <article class="post-100 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-services">

  3. You could also add in your category template file a code similar to this one:

    <?php if(is_category('category-slug-here') { ?>
    // display your HTML meta here
<?php } ?>

    You would probably need to check for subcategories, but this should get you started if you want to take the PHP approach.

  4. $category = get_the_category(); 

if ( $category[0]->cat_name == "featured" ) {

    // if first category in array is "featured", get next category in line

     $name = $category[1]->cat_name;
     $cat_id = get_cat_ID( $name );
     $link = get_category_link( $cat_id );
     echo '<a href="'. esc_url( $link ) .'"">'. $name .'</a>';

} else {

    // get the first category

     $name = $category[0]->cat_name;
     $cat_id = get_cat_ID( $name );
     $link = get_category_link( $cat_id );
     echo '<a href="'. esc_url( $link ) .'"">'. $name .'</a>';

}

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