Confluence: Is there a way to hide the authors name (added by user) in every page globally?
Asked by Chitra Patil:

We don't want the author name to show up in our end user documentation. We don't need customers to know who created what page. Is there a plugin or setting that can hide the "added" and "edited" by user names in Confuence?


Answers:
author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: If you want to do this globally including spaces with custom stylesheets, go to **Confluence Admin \| Look \& Feel \| Custom HTML** and paste into **At the end of the HEAD**:

```
&lt;style&gt;  #com-atlassian-confluence .page-metadata  {    display:none;   }&lt;/style&gt;
```

I've aggressively upped the specificity with **#com-atlassian-confluence**just in case people are customising heavily.

comments: author: Chitra Patil
body: Thanks, David! This worked like a charm!


author: Damian Andre
body: Great! is there a way to move it to the bottom of the page instead (just above comments?)


author: Manuela Schwendener
body: Hi Damian, did you find a solution for this? It's what we'd like to do, too.


author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: I added

```
.page-metadata  { display:none; }
```

to the custom stylesheet of our documentation space (Browse \> Space Admin \> Stylesheet). We're using Confluence 4.  
For more information on styling Confluence with CSS look here: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS>.


author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Hi Chitra,

we hid the whole line using CSS.  
Nevertheless, the information is in the HTML and can be retrieved if looking at the source of the page. To us, that didn't matter.

Cheers,  
Kirstin


author: Fajar Suryawan
body: I want to hide the author for a space or a specific page. How do I that in Confluence 5.x?

I could not find Kristin's step" Browse \> Space Admin \> Stylesheet " in our Confluence 5.1

comments: author: Fajar Suryawan
body: I found that Space Admins do not have access to the space's "Stylesheet" page. But members of "Confluence- administrators" do.


author: AndrewP
body: Is there an answer for hiding this content based on a Page or Space only?


author: Daniela Scheiwe
body: If you check the page layout in confluence admin / layout you will find the line

```
#parse ("/decorators/includes/page-metadata.vm")
```

If you want to hide the complete metadata line (created/updated information) you can just delete this line. But if you want to hide only parts of it, you have to look into the page-metadata.vm file and do your changes here.


author: R Donato
body: Thanks much! That worked.


author: R Donato
body: Hello, I used David's css and it removes the entire line.

I would like to keep the date last edited though. How do I remove only the names?

Thanks!

comments: author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: You could add

```
.page-metadata .author { display: none; }
```

but this would only hide the authors name, not the text "Created by".

I suppose that you need Java script to hide this text, too.


author: Chitra Patil
body: David's solution worked without going into the .vm file. Thanks everyone.


author: Chitra Patil
body: Thanks everybody for your answers; I am yet to try out the suggestions.

David,

We are not using the default theme at all; we are using the customized Refinedwiki theme--the global HTML is not applicable.

Not sure if changing the .vm file will work either. I will try and let you all know.


author: Chitra Patil
body: Hi Kirstin,  
Can you please tell me where you hid the CSS line globally? We cannot hide in each and every page--we have 1000s of pages.  

Superuschi,  
We are using Refinedwiki theme, so the default layout is not applied there. Any idea where I can find the .VM files? in the \\install directory?

comments: author: Daniela Scheiwe
body: For our installation it's in the confluence main folder (not application data), subfolder "confluence/decorators/includes", so our path is

C:\\Program Files\\Atlassian\\Confluence\\confluence\\decorators\\includes


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