Remove Author Details from WordPress using simple CSS
This article explains in detail the complete process to remove author details from WordPress using simple CSS. There are Plugins available for WordPress users to accomplish this task but a particular Plugin may work for some themes and not for others. Also Plugins poses security threats and may slow down you site. Because every Plugin is released with its own java script and CSS. These CSS and Java Script also load with normal page load which slows down the site. Here what I have done is through a simple CSS changes. Hope you will find this article useful.
Open a single blog post and right click on the author image, name etc. Click on inspect to view the CSS for author details. In my case the class name is no-featuredimage-header. This may be different for different themes. Now open your WordPress Admin Panel. Click on appearance in WordPress dashboard and select customize. Have a look at the following screen shot.
Add the following code to custom CSS. Replace no-featuredimage-header with your blog’s relevant class.
no-featuredimage-header
{
display:none;
}
If the content size is less now it can be made wider by adding the following CSS code. First you will have to find out CSS class for blog content. Apply the same procedure as above to figure it out. In my case this is entry-content. Look at the following figure to find the CSS class.
Add the following code to custom CSS. Replace .entry-content with your own class.
.entry-content
{
width:100%
}
This was all about how to remove author details from WordPress using Simple CSS. If you have any question, ask it in comment section. We will be happy if we could help you.
