How to remove "created by" on SharePoint blog post item?

Question

I recently created a blog site and posted few blog posts but then I realized that "created by" column is showing on the item.

I tried to check what page layout a post is using but I simple found nothing. I then realised that a post appears as some form of a web part, so I quickly opened the web part properties thinking that perhpas this use content query but realized there is nothing much you can do about the web part properties.

I run 1000 searches on the net and I found nothing.

If anyone knows how to remove this column, please I would really appreciate your help on this one.

Answer 1

The blog post rendered by xslt transformation. In this case you should change XSL template for your posts in 14\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\XSL folder. You can use this post as start point to understand how does it work.

Answer 2

I recently ran into the same requirement for a company Blog where several authors are posting articles but the visitors should not see the author name.

The simple approach is to use the following CSS, e.g. add it to your masterpage, to hide the author:

.ms-rightblogpost div.ms-PostFooter span.ms-postfootercolor:first-child,
.ms-rightblogpost div.ms-PostFooter nobr
{
    display: none;
}
.ms-rightblogpost div.ms-PostFooter span.ms-postfootercolor
{
    margin-left: -6px;
}

That worked for me, but if you want to remove it server-side a more advanced solution would be to create a copy of the file blog.xsl (located at 14\template\layouts\xsl) and point the Blog WebPart to your custom customblog.xsl and modify that file.

Answer 3

Thought this might help others if they are still looking for an answer.

1. If you are in SharePoint 2013, add a script editor to the page where all the blog posts are shown (blog site landing page).
2. Then insert the below snippet in the script editor web part, between the style tags.

<style>
    .ms-blog-postList > li > .ms-blog-postBox > .ms-blog-postBoxMargin > .ms-metadata, .ms-textsmall{
        display: none !important;
    }
</style>

This should hide the text that says "by ...." below the title of the blog post.