Hiding Post Information in Drupal 5

By default Drupal displays additional posting information such as who posted the story and the time and day the posting was submitted. What if for some reason you did not want this extra information posted on your site. I'll show you how you can turn them off.

Before I knew what I was doing with Drupal, I used to go into the template files and delete the code that displayed the posting information. It worked, but there is an easier way... a checkbox.

This is how you do it:

Go to your themes page, where all your themes you have installed are listed, you will see a configure tab. This configure tab is where you configure all of the theme options for Drupal.

By default Drupal will take you to Global Settings. These options control the default display settings for your entire site, across all themes. Unless they have been overridden by a specific theme, these settings will be used.

On this page you will see Display post information on with some checkboxes below. These checkboxes reflect the content types you have. Any content type that you have checked, Drupal will display the post information including who posted it and the date and time. This is nice as you can tell some content types to include the posting information and some to not include this information.

We can take this a step further by enabling it for certain themes. Instead of enabling it globally, you can click on one of the themes next to the Global settings Tab, and from there you can customize it on certain themes.

It's nice no longer going into the template and deleting the php code for this.... Drupal Rocks!