While Elegant Theme's epanel lets you edit and remove the author, date, category and comments meta information from the posts and pages, it does not let you edit or remove it from the category pages. This tweak will let you display only certain information or remove it completely. First we'll show you how to edit the information displayed. If you would prefer to remove it completely, skip to the CSS section for a very simple solution.

PHP

Create a new folder in /deepfocus-child/ and name it 'includes'

Locate the entry.php file in /themes/deepfocus/includes/

Save an exact copy of this file to the folder we just created /themes/deepfocus-child/includes/

Locate the following code near line 22:

<div class="entry-description<?php if ($thumb == '' || get_option('deepfocus_thumbnails_index') == 'false') echo(' full-description'); ?>">
<h2 class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php get_template_part('includes/postinfo'); ?>
<?php if (get_option('deepfocus_blog_style') == 'on') { ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<p><?php truncate_post(375); ?></p>
<?php } ?>
<a class="readmore" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><span><?php esc_html_e('Learn More','DeepFocus'); ?></span></a>
</div> <!-- end .entry-description -->

And change it to this:

<div class="entry-description<?php if ($thumb == '' || get_option('deepfocus_thumbnails_index') == 'false') echo(' full-description'); ?>">
<h2 class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<?php get_template_part('includes/postinfo-custom'); ?>
<?php if (get_option('deepfocus_blog_style') == 'on') { ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php } else { ?>
<p><?php truncate_post(375); ?></p>
<?php } ?>
<a class="readmore" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><span><?php esc_html_e('Learn More','DeepFocus'); ?></span></a>
</div> <!-- end .entry-description -->

Here we are just changing the source of template from 'postinfo' to a new file we will create called 'postinfo-custom'. Now let's create that file.

Create a new file called 'postinfo-custom.php' and save it to /themes/deepfocus-child/includes/

Add the following code:

<?php if (!is_single() && get_option('deepfocus_postinfo1') ) { ?>
<p class="post-meta"><?php if (in_array('date', get_option('deepfocus_postinfo1'))) { ?><?php the_time(get_option('deepfocus_date_format')) ?><?php }; ?><?php if (in_array('categories', get_option('deepfocus_postinfo1'))) { ?> <?php }; ?><?php if (in_array('comments', get_option('deepfocus_postinfo1'))) { ?> | <?php comments_popup_link(esc_html__('0 comments','DeepFocus'), esc_html__('1 comment','DeepFocus'), '% '.esc_html__('comments','DeepFocus')); ?><?php }; ?></p>
<div class="clear"></div>
<?php } elseif (is_single() && get_option('deepfocus_postinfo2') ) { ?>
<p class="post-meta">
<?php if (in_array('date', get_option('deepfocus_postinfo2'))) { ?><?php the_time(get_option('deepfocus_date_format')) ?><?php }; ?><?php if (in_array('categories', get_option('deepfocus_postinfo2'))) { ?> <?php }; ?><?php if (in_array('comments', get_option('deepfocus_postinfo2'))) { ?> | <?php comments_popup_link(esc_html__('0 comments','DeepFocus'), esc_html__('1 comment','DeepFocus'), '% '.esc_html__('comments','DeepFocus')); ?><?php }; ?>
</p>
<?php }; ?>

This is just a copy of the original postinfo.php with the author and category sections removed. Next we'll show you how to remove the bar completely with a much easier method.

CSS

Locate your style.css file in /deepfocus-child/

Add the following code:

.entry-description .post-meta {
display: none;
}

That's it. The meta rounded box should now be gone.