Removing the WordPress Date on Affiliate Blogs

Update: Child themes should be used to undertake any updates to theme files. I will have a new post on this soon!

Not all affiliate blogs are updated regularly like a “blog” should be.

So leaving dates on your posts can lead your visitors to (rightly) believe that your blog is old and outdated.

If your last post was written 10 months ago, people are likely to leave the site rather than stick around and read what they believe is up to date content.

So if you aren’t updating regularly (not all niches lend themselves to regular posting) then removing the date display on your blog posts is a good way to avoid broadcasting that your blog is a little more static that people might think.

Every theme is different but it is generally pretty easy to delete the code that displays the date. There are normally 2 places you’ll need to do this:

- For the posts on the front page of the blog (index.php)
- On individual blog post pages (single.php)

Open index.php and single.php and delete code that looks similar to:

If that code is contained in its own