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To remove the author and date from other WordPress themes, there’s a good chance that they are using the standard the_author() function and the_time() functions so look out for code blocks that look like: by < ?php the_author() ?> and delete or comment out.

Different themes may use different file names but usually (as is the case with the default blue WordPress theme), the main page will be index.php so this would be the first place you would want to look. If you want to remove the author and date from the individual post pages as well, check the single.php file.

Hope that helps,

Glad you found the typing effect code useful! Good questions – and not entirely straightforward – I’ve done my best to answer them below:

1 – If you’re using the uploaded Flash file, I think you’ll need to expand both the text area and document size, or shrink the font… it looks like it’s getting cut off because it’s reaching the end of the text area.

2 – To loop the typing effect, the AS3 code “typeTimer.stop();” – can be replaced with the below:
clipText.dynText.htmlText = “”;
varString = “”;
charPos = 0;
cursorFlashed = 0;
typeTimer.reset();
typeTimer.start();

3 – To pause at the “…” or at a certain point in the typing effect, you can replace the AS3:
typeVar = minTypeTime + Math.random()*typeSpeedVariation;
with:
if (charPos == 25) {
typeVar = 150;
} else {
typeVar = minTypeTime + Math.random()*typeSpeedVariation;
}
where charPos is the position in the text string for the character you want to pause at, and the typeVar the pause length in milliseconds (divided by 2). So for 3 seconds, the value is 150.

Hope that helps and good luck with the Blog!

Tom

Thanks for the post and uploading the code – it was really useful! This is the first time I’ve ever used flash (and I’ve only just started to learn HTML/CSS a few days ago sorry apologies if these are easy questions.

1) When I’ve tried input the text string “Welcome to The Insiders\n…the first step to a successful career path.” it stops after the letter ‘a’ – Any reason why?

2) How do I have this on loop rather than stopping? (i’ve tried removing the end timer etc but to no avail)

2) As a final aesthetic point if I try to slow the type speed down only at ‘…’ how would I go about this?

Any help is much appreciated!

Kind regards,

Mahdi

P.s As a note, the site is just a wordpress blog but I’m trying to remake it from HTML from scratch with added bits like flash etc!