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How to Remove Date and Time from WordPress Comments

Last updated on November 6th, 2017 by Editorial Staff
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How to Remove Date and Time from WordPress Comments

Do you want to remove dates from the WordPress comments area on your website? Recently bloggers have been wanting to remove comment dates to make their comments look fresh and evergreen. In this article, we will show you how to remove dates from WordPress comments.

Removing date and time from WordPress comments

Should you Remove Date from WordPress Comments?

Some users believe that hiding date and time in WordPress will prevent their articles from looking dated thus improving their improve WordPress SEO and search engine rankings.

We disagree with this sentiment. In fact, we believe removing dates can be quite problematic.

You can see our article on why you should not remove dates from WordPress posts for more details.

Same arguments are true for your WordPress comments as well. Removing date and time from comments will hide important information which would make older comments look odd.

However, we understand that some users may be using comments differently than normal web comments. For example, on a WordPress intranet or a web application.

In that case, they may need to remove date or time from WordPress comments to meet their requirements.

That being said, let’s take a look at how to easily remove date and time from WordPress comments.

Removing Date and Time from WordPress Comments

This tutorial requires you to edit your WordPress theme files. If you haven’t done this before, then please take a look at our guide on how to copy and paste code in WordPress.

First you need to add the following code in your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin.

// Remove comment date
function wpb_remove_comment_date($date, $d, $comment) { 
	if ( !is_admin() ) {
    	return;
	} else { 
		return $date;
	}
}
add_filter( 'get_comment_date', 'wpb_remove_comment_date', 10, 3);

// Remove comment time
function wpb_remove_comment_time($date, $d, $comment) { 
	if ( !is_admin() ) {
    		return;
	} else { 
			return $date;
	}
}
add_filter( 'get_comment_time', 'wpb_remove_comment_time', 10, 3);

You can now visit any post with comments on your website, and you will see the date and time are no longer visible.

Date and time removed from comments

However, you may also find preposition words like ‘at’ or ‘posted on’ left behind.

To remove them, you need to point the cursor to those words and right-click to select ‘Inspect’ from the browser menu.

CSS class surrounding date and time in comments

Next, you need to note the CSS class used in the surrounding div or span around date/time in your theme.

After that you need to add the following custom CSS to your theme to hide this information:

.comment-time { 
display:none; 
}

You can now save your changes and visit your website to see it in action.

No date / time with WordPress comments

That’s all you have successfully removed date and time from WordPress comments.

Please note that this method does not remove comment dates and time from your WordPress database. Removing the code will immediately start displaying date and time for WordPress comments on your site.

We hope this article helped you learn how to easily remove date and time from WordPress comments. You may also want to see our list of the must have WordPress plugins for business websites.

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16 Comments

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  1. Ivan says:
    Nov 16, 2019 at 3:40 pm

    Awesome! Thanks for sharing. My first attempt to play with theme coding and it worked :) Your advice is much appreciated!

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Nov 18, 2019 at 10:40 am

      You’re welcome, glad our guide could help :)

      Reply
  2. Ahmad Wali says:
    Oct 16, 2019 at 2:20 am

    Can you please recommend any good plugin to completely hide comments, date section from wordpress websites?

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Oct 16, 2019 at 10:17 am

      If you want to completely remove the comments, you would want to take a look at the article here: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-completely-disable-comments-in-wordpress/

      Reply
  3. Marv says:
    Jun 3, 2019 at 2:44 pm

    Works like a charm! Thank you

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jun 4, 2019 at 11:17 am

      Glad our article was helpful :)

      Reply
  4. Luke Thomas says:
    May 15, 2019 at 12:40 am

    Thanks again, it worked like a charm on the website. It goes to show even for people who are not that familiar with coding can accomplish these tasks with the help of WPBEGINNER.

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      May 15, 2019 at 11:34 am

      You’re welcome, glad our guide could help :)

      Reply
  5. Sahil Sharma says:
    Feb 17, 2019 at 8:47 am

    Thanks for the solution.

    How to remove blank space create after remove date and time ??

    Thanks

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Feb 18, 2019 at 2:31 pm

      That would require editing your theme’s CSS which is different for each theme. If you reach out to your theme’s support they should be able to assist.

      Reply
  6. Pete says:
    Jan 11, 2019 at 2:29 pm

    Hi,

    I tried to use the php code above and it worked
    But, how to use php code to remove ‘at’?

    I used the css code above, but that would be a hidden text. When I viewed the source code, ‘at’ was still there.

    How to use php code to remove ‘at’?

    Thanks

    Reply
    • WPBeginner Support says:
      Jan 14, 2019 at 1:01 pm

      For that, you would normally want to reach out to your theme’s support and create a child theme to edit the comment template rather than use PHP.

      Reply
      • Saarika says:
        Feb 16, 2019 at 6:29 am

        Date and time got removed but i can see the link on at. I am applying the css u mentioned but its not working

        Reply
        • WPBeginner Support says:
          Feb 18, 2019 at 1:25 pm

          Your specific theme likely may have different stylings for your comments, if you reach out to your theme’s support they should be able to let you know.

  7. Angel Costa says:
    Nov 6, 2017 at 2:01 pm

    I truly hate every website that removes dates so its content seems to be everlasting. It’s misleading and we can’t tell if something is outdated or not.

    Reply
    • Sofor says:
      Nov 19, 2017 at 10:49 pm

      Sorry, I can’t agree with you.

      Reply

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