Hide Meta Section in Wordpress

Hi Tyrone,

There's no code involved in this and you don't need to edit any template files.

In the WordPress admin when you're logged in, hover the Appearance link in the menu on the left and then click the Widgets link.

You will open up the widgets page and then you'll see the sidebar blocks (toggles).

Inside one of these you'll have a wordpress meta widget.

Click it and drag it out to the left and bottom into the unused widgets or click on it to open it up and delete/remove it.

Then go to the frontend of your website and refresh the page.

The default meta widget block should now be gone.

Cheers!!!

Tyrone, are you trying to hide it on the front end of the site or in the backend?

If you want to remove it from your template, you're looking for something like this code:

<?php $meta_values = get_post_meta( $post_id, $key, $single ); ?>

If you find that in your single.php (or other theme file) and comment it out, the meta information will not be displayed.

I think that I want to hide it on the front end. I don't want it to be visible on my page.

Yes, try editing your theme's template files to remove the get_post_meta() function.

I just commented out the pertinent area of html. Below are the steps.

1. Go to "Appearance"
2. Click "Editor"
3. Click "Sidebar"
4. Find the section where the list items start that are associated with the meta section and put an HTML style comment around that section.

Ah yes, I misunderstood what "Meta" info that Tyrone was talking about. Wally's on it.