Hiding entry credits on overview display (0.8+)

[joho]

I'd like an option that will let me control which details are shown after an entry in the overview display. When I click on an entry, it's OK (IMHO) to be more verbose/detailed, my suggestion is to allow for a "frontpage" or "listing" to be less verbose.

I'm talking about this text:

Posted by joho in Swedish, Wired, JoHo at 10:46 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Edit entry

I'd like to be able to configure (globally)
Display of author
Display of categories
Display of timestamp
Display of comment indicator
Display of trackback indicator
Display of admin commands

[garvinhicking]

Well, why don't you just edit your templates 'entries.tpl' file and remove what you don't want there?

Regards,
Garvin

[joho]

A reply as good as any I suppose

My point is that I'd like to be able to do this regardless of themes/templates.

[garvinhicking]

The problem with that simply is, that if you abstract the IF-statements for that, you will introduce much, much logic into the templates.

We try to avoid that, so that a template is still not too hard to grasp.

I could think of creating a plugin which makes it configurable and spews out HTML code, and you could use that plugin inside the template instead of all the author-information. But we most possibly will not include that plugin code into our standard entries.tpl file because of the above reasons.

I am sorry, I cannot offer you a good solution to the problem.