Remove the published date value from the article view screen

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#1

Hi Folks,

I am trying to remove the published date value from the article view screen. I tried clearing the date published field in Issue Management but it wouldn’t clear off. Is there any way to remove it?

I have attached a screenshot of the screen with the published date.

Thanks,
Sreerag

#2

You could solve both this and the other issue (Unable to deselect Volume, number and years in issue data section) by creating a default child theme and modifying some templates.

Namely this: https://github.com/pkp/ojs/blob/master/templates/frontend/objects/issue_summary.tpl#L31
And this: https://github.com/pkp/ojs/blob/master/templates/frontend/objects/issue_toc.tpl#L69

There is still a bug in the getIssueIdentification function, but you could just remove that part from your custom theme template.