Twenty Nineteen: Duplicate Author and Date Displayed in Single Post View

[sukhendu2002]

In the Twenty Nineteen theme, the author name and post date are displayed twice on the single post view: once at the top of the post content and again at the bottom. This is inconsistent with other default themes, such as Twenty Seventeen and Twenty Twenty-Five, which only display this information at the top of the post.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/62672

[abcd95]

Test Report

Description

This report validates that the indicated patch works as expected.

Environment

• WordPress: 6.8-alpha-59274-src
• PHP: 8.2.25
• Server: nginx/1.27.2
• Database: mysqli (Server: 8.0.40 / Client: mysqlnd 8.2.25)
• Browser: Chrome 131.0.0.0
• OS: macOS
• Theme: Twenty Nineteen 3.0

Actual Results

✅ Issue resolved with the patch.

Additional Notes

It can be seen from the screenshot that the 'Edit Post' link is also duplicated which can be resolved and simplified further in my opinion.

Supplemental Artifacts

[sabernhardt]

This was already suggested in #45555, and we agreed not to make an unexpected change.

On that ticket, I did not mention the possibility that sites already remove the duplicate meta from either the header or the footer (but retain it in one of them).