CSS: 42 characters to hide post author info and byline in Twenty Fifteen

Since I’m the only one posting here, I added the following CSS:

.author-info, span.byline {
display: none;
}

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You can compare how the author information (single post and byline) is displayed on the Twenty Fifteen demo.

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Bryan works at Automattic. Cat whisperer. Sometimes, a photographer and card magician. View all posts by Bryan Villarin

Lance Willett says:

March 12, 2015 at 10:35 am

Hi Brian—you shouldn’t need any CSS at all to hide single author bylines in the last few default themes and many themes based on _s (Underscores).

They use a WordPress function called is_multi_author() to hide the byline of there are not more than 1 author on the blog.

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1. Lance Willett says:
  
  March 12, 2015 at 10:39 am
  
  On looking at Twenty Fifteen specifically—the template tag is hidden by default on single post view only (not on index).
  
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  1. Bryan Villarin says:
    
    March 12, 2015 at 10:49 am
    
    Thanks Lance! I removed span.byline, but my name still appears on single post view. I’ll try a test blog soon.
    
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thomasbroughton says:

July 5, 2015 at 1:13 pm

Perfect, works great, our of curiosity what was the “.byline” part do?

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1. Bryan Villarin says:
  
  July 17, 2015 at 6:18 pm
  
  Awesome! It displays the name of the post author.
  
  For your reference, in Google Chrome, I used Inspect Element to take this screenshot image.
  
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