It’s not a complicated process, but it has a lot of steps…
- Login to your account.
- Go to Presentation -> Widgets.
- Drag the Meta widget from Sidebar 1 into the Available Widgets area.
- Sidebar 1 should now only have the items you to show up in your sidebar. Make sure they’re in the order that you want them to be in by dragging them up or down.
- Click on the Save Changes form element to save your changes.
- Next, go to Presentation -> Theme Editor.
- Click on Comments in the list of files on the right to edit the Comments template.
- Make sure the page says, “Editing comments.php,” at the top.
- Select the entire contents by either clicking at the beginning and dragging all the way to the bottom or by choosing Select All from the edit menu or by typing command-A. Hit the delete the key to remove the entire contents of the file.
- Click on the Update File form element to save your changes.
- Next, edit the Single Post template by clicking on it on the right side of the page.
- Scroll down to the div id “post-metadata” and select this text:
<div class="post-metadata">
<h3>
This entry was posted on <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?> at <?php the_time('g:i A') ?> and filed under <?php the_category(', ') ?>.
<br/>
Follow comments here with the <?php comments_rss_link('RSS 2.0 (XML)'); ?> feed.
<?php if (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) { ?><a href="#respond" title="Post a comment">Post a comment</a> or leave a <a href="<?php trackback_url(true); ?>" title="Trackback URI" rel="trackback">trackback</a>.
<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) { ?>Comments are closed, but you can leave a <a href="<?php trackback_url(true); ?> " title="Trackback URI" rel="trackback">trackback</a>.
<?php } elseif (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) { ?>Skip to the end and leave a response. Trackbacks are closed.
<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) { ?>Apologies. Comments and trackbacks are both currently closed.
<?php } edit_post_link(); ?>
</h3>
</div><!-- END POSTMETADATA -->
<?php comments_template(); ?>
- Replace it with this text:
<div class="post-metadata">
<h3>
This entry was posted on <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?> at <?php the_time('g:i A') ?> and filed under <?php the_category(', ') ?>.
<?php } edit_post_link(); ?>
</h3>
</div><!-- END POSTMETADATA --> - Click on the Update File form element to save your changes.
- Review your site to make sure it’s still functional and that you haven’t deleted something that shouldn’t have been deleted.
- Send an e-mail message to ultimate@jb3623.com stating that your project has been submitted.
To summarize, what we’re doing here is this:
- Removing the login links that would allow hackers to attempt to log into your site.
- Removing the comment and pingback code that would allow hackers to attempt to send comment spam.
- Informing me that your project is complete.
Your sites will be offline for a week or so while I convert them into static sites and grade them.