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Rick Olsen
October 29th, 2009, 05:16 AM
What's the concensus on posts having a date and time? Should this be left alone or removed? What's the advantage to having this?

Thanks

Baggs
October 29th, 2009, 08:06 AM
I take the view that if it is a site that is not going tobe updated regularly, then I take the date off as it looks bad to have the last post days, months or weeks ago. I particularly do this where I use wordpress as a CMS.

Any site that is regularly updated then I see no harm in having it on, in fact it shows that the site is current.

Lynn Terry
October 29th, 2009, 08:33 AM
If the content is time sensitive, the date and time are appropriate. If not, if the content is evergreen (meaning just as current a year from now as it is today) then you can remove the timestamp altogether.

AlexNewell
October 30th, 2009, 05:54 AM
Maybe this is a "Homer" question ( I've been asking lots of those lately) - How? Is it in one of the settings or one of those nasty cody things?

I'm stuck on one of those right now. Ugh!!

TraciKnoppe
October 30th, 2009, 06:04 AM
Nasty cody things. :)

There's a snippet of code in the files for the theme you're using that would need to be removed, to take the date/time stamp off your posts.

AlexNewell
October 30th, 2009, 06:10 AM
Thanks Traci - I could feel it coming!!

:-)

Al