How to remove items from a page?

Question

I have just downloaded and installed Orchard CMS and started to play with it. Created some widgets in zones, and created a blog and customized my top menu.

Now I want to do some modifications for my welcome page.. I want to remove the title field and the line where created date is shown, only to show the body. (This will only be for the welcome page. The other pages should not be affected)

How do I do this? What is the right approach?

Answer 1

I had the same desire to remove the published date. In my case I wanted to remove them from ALL pages.

One way to to do this is to adjust the Placement of Shapes...

The Shape you need to influence the placement of is the Parts_Common_Metadata shape. To make it invisible you make the placement value equal to 'Nowhere'.

So I added this to a placement.info file inside my theme folder:

<Match DisplayType="Detail">
    <Place Parts_Common_Body="Content:before"
           Parts_Tags_ShowTags="Content:after"
           Parts_Comments="Footer"
           Parts_Common_Metadata="Nowhere"/>
</Match>
<Match DisplayType="Summary">
    <Place Parts_Common_Body_Summary="Content"
           Parts_Comments_Count="Nowhere"
           Parts_Tags_ShowTags="Nowhere"
           Parts_Common_Metadata_Summary="Nowhere"
           Fields_Common_Text="Nowhere"/>
</Match>

If you want this to apply only to certain content types you can wrap the above within a parent tag such as:

<Match ContentType="Blog"></Match>

I'm not sure how you would apply this only to the Welcome page though...

Answer 2

In case someone finds the response later and needs the mark up for removing the page title on the homepage, here it is:

<!-- Remove the page title from the homepage -->
<Match Path="~/">
    <Place Parts_Title="-" />
</Match>