Firstly i would like to say, i read your whole post and you dont have that a big issue to write almost a page about it.

Next time, keep it simple, and say "i want to remove author name, remove sidebar, add this, remove that" thats all. Long posts scare the hell out of me.

As far as i have remember from your long post, you are using evocamp skin and you want to remove the author name, to do this,

open posts.main.php -2.x- OR _item_block.inc.php -3.x- depending on your version and delete/comment the lines

  $Item->author( array(
				'before'       => T_('By').' ',
				'after'        => ' ',
			) );

Look around those lines, the p.postinfo has all the post details you would like to remove/modify.

To remove the sidebar, open up your posts.main.php and delete/comment lines:
sidebar left

	<?php
	// ------------------------- SIDEBAR INCLUDED HERE --------------------------
	skin_include( '_sidebar_left.inc.php' );
	// Note: You can customize the default BODY footer by copying the
	// _body_footer.inc.php file into the current skin folder.
	// ----------------------------- END OF SIDEBAR -----------------------------
	?>

sidebar right

<?php
// ------------------------- SIDEBAR INCLUDED HERE --------------------------
skin_include( '_sidebar_right.inc.php' );
// Note: You can customize the default BODY footer by copying the
// _body_footer.inc.php file into the current skin folder.
// ----------------------------- END OF SIDEBAR -----------------------------
?>

You will have to repeat the above step for index.main.php and single.main.php if you do not want the sidebar(s) to show up anywhere at all

I find it better to be detailed than not. Otherwise you get a whole lot of back and forth asking for info that should have been there in the first place. Thank you for your response. I'll see if it works for me.

I had to laugh at your not remembering what I said, as if we're on a phone call. Ahh, you crack me up!

Now, even with all that I did include, I am still looking for a way to remove the line that is added to each post; the line with the date, comments, etc, just under the title. Do you know how to do that?

Cordially,
Patricia

Whatevertheheck wrote:

Now, even with all that I did include, I am still looking for a way to remove the line that is added to each post; the line with the date, comments, etc, just under the title.

So you want to remove the whole "post details" line, just delete lines:

<p class="postinfo">
		<?php
		if( ! $Item->is_intro() )
		{	// Display only if we're not displaying an intro post:
      $Item->author( array(
				'before'       => T_('By').' ',
				'after'        => ' ',
			) );
			$Item->issue_time( array(
					'before'      => /* TRANS: date */ T_('on '),
					'after'       => '',
					'time_format' => 'M j, Y',
				) );
			$Item->categories( array(
					'before'          => ' | '.T_('In '),
					'after'           => ' ',
					'include_main'    => true,
					'include_other'   => true,
					'include_external'=> true,
					'link_categories' => true,
				) );
			// Link to comments, trackbacks, etc.:
			$Item->feedback_link( array(
					'type' => 'feedbacks',
					'link_before' => ' | ',
					'link_after' => '',
					'link_text_zero' => '#',
					'link_text_one' => '#',
					'link_text_more' => '#',
					'link_title' => '#',
					'use_popup' => false,
				) );
			$Item->edit_link( array( // Link to backoffice for editing
					'before'    => ' | ',
					'after'     => '',
				) );

			}
		?>
		</p>

that is for 3.x in _item_block.inc.php, which would be pretty much the same in 2.x but only in posts.main.php.How bout next time you tell which version you are using so that we dont have to make guesses

You are wonderfully responsive. Thank you very much, and I am using the 3.3.1 stable version. It's 6:40 a.m. here in NJ so I'm exhausted. Will try your suggestions later in the day.

Hope that wasn't too verbose. Wink!

And actually, I DID select the box that requests the version of b2evolution being used. I thought there was a reason for it and that it would show up somewhere so I didn't know you couldn't see that.

Very cordially, darling -
Patricia

Is there anyone else here who might be able to answer the question that I posted originally?

"Ultimately I'd like to post RSS links to each of their sites so that my content is updated freshly automatically. Kinda like auto-pilot. " Can that be done within a blog page?

Whatevertheheck wrote:

Is there anyone else here who might be able to answer the question that I posted originally?

"Ultimately I'd like to post RSS links to each of their sites so that my content is updated freshly automatically. Kinda like auto-pilot. " Can that be done within a blog page?

There's Rss feeds for every blog/cat/post everything else.. anyone can follow anything they desire on your blog and even get notified.

As for posting "anything on anyone else's website" you gotta ask for their permission P:

And oh, negative vote for helping out ?way to go -_-

No, I'm not asking how others can RSS my content. I was asking if it is possible to include an RSS feed inside my blog. Having it act, so to speak, as a feed reader. I would be using this for the members of my LinkedIn group so I already have their permission, and actually their requests.

So I could post links to others' sites that automatically update.

http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=18175
http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=13793

¥

Thank you, um . . . Blonde B. That's exactly what I was looking for!!!

Ok, I have part of the solution for removing the sidebars. However the text needs to expand across the empty columns now. Would someone be so kind to share how I get the text to fill in the column that is now empty (the middle one).

I did visit the page I referenced in my initial post but none of the content mentioned there to have the text take up the full space is in my template. Thank you!