Time for action – customizing the Content Pages block

Although it is not necessary, for the purpose of esthetics, and to again demonstrate how easy it is to customize your site, we are now going to remove the last updated line, center the title, and remove the blocks displayed on the right side of the page. Follow these steps to make these additional changes:

1. With your text editor, open the file found at the following path: yourmoodledirectory/blocks/page/view.php and comment out the line found on or around line 116. The line is:

   print_heading("<i>Last Updated: ".userdate($page->timemodified, get_string('strftimedate'))."</i>", 'left', 4);

2. It can be "commented out" by placing two forward slashes at the beginning of the line. After you have added the slashes, save the file and refresh your browser window. You will see that the Last Updated message has disappeared.

3. Next, in the same file, on the line just above the line we just commented out, which should be on or around line 115...