Why does my category page display “posted on…” when all I want it to do is display categories?

Question

Refer to: http://blog.studentlife.uiowa.edu/svp/categories/

I just used a blank category template. What can I add to/change the code to make it so that it doesn't put in the category page like it's a post? I only want it to list the categories than cut to the footer/sidebar.

Answer 1

Open the archive.php file of the Blank theme and delete this code from the top.

            <?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?>
            <h2>Archive for the &#8216;<?php single_cat_title(); ?>&#8217; Category</h2>

        <?php /* If this is a tag archive */ } elseif( is_tag() ) { ?>
            <h2>Posts Tagged &#8216;<?php single_tag_title(); ?>&#8217;</h2>

        <?php /* If this is a daily archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
            <h2>Archive for <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?></h2>

        <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
            <h2>Archive for <?php the_time('F, Y'); ?></h2>

        <?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
            <h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for <?php the_time('Y'); ?></h2>

        <?php /* If this is an author archive */ } elseif (is_author()) { ?>
            <h2 class="pagetitle">Author Archive</h2>

        <?php /* If this is a paged archive */ } elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) { ?>
            <h2 class="pagetitle">Blog Archives</h2>

        <?php } ?>

Answer 2

That "Posted On" bit is part of the /inc/meta.php template file, that is being included in archive.php.

You can:

1) Modify /inc/meta.php

2) Modify archive.php to remove this include

3) Add a category.php, based on archive.php, but omitting the include of /inc/meta.php

EDIT:

Conditional statement to exclude the category archives:

<?php if ( ! is_category() ) { 

     // we're not on a category archive; do something

} ?>

Try wrapping this around the include() for /inc/meta.php