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Most of our tutorials involve CSS snippets, and that is all well and good. But sometimes we need to get a bit more serious in order to hack Divi the way we want. To remove the word “by” before the author or the “pipes” | between the blog meta text, we need to use jQuery. If you are new to jQuery, don’t worry, this tutorial and video will show you exactly what to do!
Add The Custom Class
The first thing to do is add a custom CSS class to the blog module. This way you can target that specific blog module on your site with the code, meaning it will only affect the Blog modules with the class. So go to the Blog module settings>Advanced tab>CSS IDs & Classes and add “pa-remove-meta-separators” to the CSS Class input field.
Where To Add The Code
If you are using our free Divi child theme, place this snippet into the scripts.js file and remove the <script> tags at the beginning and end. Otherwise, place this in your Divi>Theme Options>Integrations tab in the “Add code to the < head > of your blog” code area.
<script>
//Remove meta seperator pipes (|) and by from Divi Blog module meta
jQuery(function($) {
$(document).ready(function() {
$('.pa-remove-meta-separators .post-meta').each(function() {
$(this).html($(this).html().replace(/\|/g, " "));
$(this).html($(this).html().replace('by', " "));
$(this).html(jQuery(this).html().replace(/,/g, ""));
});
//Do the same for ajax with pagination enabled
$(document).bind('ready ajaxComplete', function() {
$('.pa-remove-meta-separators .post-meta').each(function() {
$(this).html($(this).html().replace(/\|/g, " "));
$(this).html($(this).html().replace('by', " "));
$(this).html(jQuery(this).html().replace(/,/g, ""));
});
});
});
});
</script>
Here is an example of adding the code to the Divi>Theme Options>Integrations area. Once you save the changes, the meta blog separators will be removed.
NOTE: I added the third line in the snippet to remove the commas between categories after the original post and video were published.
You could also add the code to a Divi Code module directly on the page if you prefer.
Customizing The Snippet
You may only want to remove the word “by” or you may only want to remove the pipe separators. No problem! You can simply remove one line or the other from the code. You should be able to spot the line of code for the pipe and the second line for the ‘by” and you can remove either one to your meet your needs. You can also remove the third line that removes the commas between the categories.
I recommend watching the video to make sure you follow this correctly and get the most amount of learning out of this tutorial. Let me know in the comments if you enjoyed this!
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To fix the issue below, I just added a pseudo-element (::after) to the author class and added my own content! Not sure if you no an easier way with just slightly changing the code in this article?
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Hi Nelson,
Is there any way to only remove the separator after the author vcard class without going into the php? I cannot seem to figure it out.
Thanks!
I’m not sure how to remove specific ones, sorry, just all of them.
UPDATE:
To fix the issue below, I just added a pseudo-element (::after) to the author class and added my own content! Not sure if you no an easier way with just slightly changing the code in this article?
Thanks anyway!
That works! I thought about suggesting that but you beat me to it!
Hello, and thank you, work very well. Just one problem I noticed ad still can’t solve.
When we navigate to a specific category it doesn’t work. Do you have any idea on how to solve this?
Thank you.
Just to clarify, you are adding the same class to Blog module in a Theme Builder template and it isn’t working?
Can’t we do this too?
.dsm-meta-seperator{
display: none;
}
No, what would that CSS class be referring to?