Need help to hide author name in posts

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Last updated by Minesh 7 months, 3 weeks ago.

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March 31, 2024 at 2:10 pm #2690208

Robert Campbell

I recently had an attempt by someone to gain access to the site by using a post author name which can be seen in posts by using the Google Inspect function.

The user name was still protected by password but I would like to suppress the post author name in the Meta data, if this is possible.

I tried using custom CSS but I cannot find the correct meta class to use with display:none;
You can find a typical blog post at hidden link

Regards
Robert

April 1, 2024 at 7:16 am #2690266

Minesh

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Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

This possibly looks like certainly not a Toolset issue.

Where exactly the author name is added? Is it with the SEO meta - if yes, if you are using any SEO plugin please check how you can remove author name from your desired place.

April 2, 2024 at 8:53 am #2690485

Robert Campbell

Hi Minesh
I got in contact with the "All in One SEO" plugin support team. They have offered a couple of solutions to the issue including some backend code via https://wordpress.org/support/topic/removing-post-author-from-metadata/#post-17543446

I should be able to get this sorted now.