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To hide the line in the Twenty Twelve child-theme example discussed on SitePoint, add footer.entry-meta { display: none; } to the site’s custom CSS or child-theme stylesheet. That hides the entire metadata footer—not just “This entry was posted in”—so it may also remove category and tag links, the date, and author information. Check your active theme’s markup before using the selector.
Hide the entire metadata line
The wording is usually produced by the theme’s post-metadata output, rather than by the site-wide footer template. In the SitePoint example, the line appeared inside <footer class="entry-meta">. The original poster reported that this CSS worked:
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footer.entry-meta {
display: none;
}Add the rule through your site’s custom CSS facility, if available, or to a child-theme stylesheet. The exact place to add CSS depends on whether the site is hosted on WordPress.com or self-hosted, and on the active theme; there is no single editor path that applies to every setup.
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This rule removes the whole matching footer from display. If that footer contains category or tag links, a date, or author information, those disappear too. The SitePoint discussion concerned a custom child theme based on Twenty Twelve and dates to December 21–22, 2013, so treat the selector as a solution for that markup rather than a universal WordPress rule. Read the SitePoint discussion.
Find the right selector in your theme
- Open a post where the unwanted line appears and inspect the rendered page’s HTML using your browser’s developer tools, or inspect the theme’s output.
- Locate the element that contains the line. Note its tag and class names; the SitePoint example used
footer.entry-meta. - Check whether the same element contains other information you want to keep, such as category links, tags, date, or author.
- Use a selector that matches your theme’s actual markup, then check a post and any archive or homepage cards where the line also appears.
The line may be rendered differently on single posts and archive cards, so inspect each display context where you want the change. If the selector does not match your theme, the CSS will have no effect; do not assume that changing the selector to a familiar WordPress class will work without checking the markup.
Hide only categories or tags
If you want to keep some metadata, target only the child elements that represent the fields you want hidden. A separate WordPress.com Premium Theme Support discussion gives this theme-specific example for category and tag links:
.entry-footer .cat-links,
.entry-footer .tags-links {
display: none;
}Those selectors are not universal: they apply only if the active theme uses those classes in that structure. The support page treats sharing buttons separately, directing readers to WordPress.com sharing settings rather than using this CSS rule. See the WordPress.com theme-support example.
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Only if the theme’s markup gives those words their own element that CSS can target. In the SitePoint example, “This entry was posted in” was plain text within the metadata footer, not a separately wrapped element. Hiding that text alone while leaving adjacent category or tag links in clean layout is not straightforward with CSS in that markup.
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If preserving the links matters and the introductory words have no wrapper, the practical options are to change the theme’s output—preferably in a child theme—or accept hiding the full metadata block. Avoid editing a parent theme file for this visual change because a theme update can overwrite the edit.
Independent reader supportYour contribution helps us test, update, and keep practical guides available for everyone.What “Uncategorized” means
“Uncategorized” is a category label in the rendered post metadata, not part of the CSS selector or the phrase itself. A 2013 WordPress.com forum discussion addresses that label separately from the question of hiding the metadata line. Read the WordPress.com forum discussion.
These discussions document theme-specific troubleshooting, not a general search-engine rule. They do not establish that hiding the line improves or preserves SEO.
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