If you want to modify the static parts of the breadcrumb display (that is, not the links), it’s very simple to do.
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If you want to add some fancy styling to the post date to make it stand out, then there’s two things we need to do. The first is to alter the format of the date and add extra markup, and the second is to add some CSS to our stylesheet. Take a look at the following screenshot showing the post title and post info, and take note of the fairly bland appearance of the date:

The original date - fairly standard and non-interesting

That’s not doing it for me, so lets go and jazz it up a little.

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If you want to change the wording for the comment count on posts, perhaps from the default of “Leave a Comment” to simply “0 Comments”, then it’s quick and easy to do.

Open up the functions.php file in your child theme and add the following code. The code should be entered at the end of the file, just before the closing ?> if there is one.

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If you need to style the comment count number for a post so that it’s different from the word “Comment(s)”, then there’s two steps we need to take. First, we need to add some extra markup around the number part, and secondly, add some CSS to style that markup.

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