从WordPress博客主页上的作者和日期元删除链接

在我的博客主页上，作者和日期元（作者姓名和日期）是链接形式的。我只想以文本形式显示它们。当我试图删除链接时，文本也会被删除。请帮我删除链接。display.php的代码是

if (!function_exists('swift_meta_generator')):
/**
 * Generate post meta.
 *
 * Prints the post meta information based on the options set in theme options page.
 * Called around post titles on home page and single pages.
 *
 * @param    array $meta post meta order set in options page.
 * @param    string $classes html classes for the post meta wrapper.
 *
 */
function swift_meta_generator($meta, $classes)
{
    $data = '<div class="entry-meta ' . $classes . '">';
    $size = count($meta);
    for ($i = 0; $i < $size; $i++) {
        switch ($meta[$i]) {
            case 'text' :
                if ((current_time('timestamp', 1) - get_the_date('U')) < 86400)
                    $meta[$i + 1] = preg_replace('(on)', '', $meta[$i + 1]);
                $data .= $meta[$i + 1];
                $i++;
                break;
            case 'author' :
                $data .= '<span class="vcard author fa-user"><a class="" href="' . esc_url(get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_meta('ID'))) . '" rel="author"><span class="fn">' . esc_attr(get_the_author()) . '</span></a></span> ';
                break;
            case 'author_avatar' :
                $data .= get_avatar( get_the_author_meta('ID'), 16 );
                $data .= '&nbsp;<span class="vcard author"><a class="" href="' . esc_url(get_author_posts_url(get_the_author_meta('ID'))) . '" rel="author"><span class="fn">' . esc_attr(get_the_author()) . '</span></a></span> ';
                break;
            case 'date' :
                if ((current_time('timestamp', 1) - get_the_date('U')) < 86400)
                    $date = human_time_diff(get_the_time('U'), current_time('timestamp')) . ' '.__('ago','swift');
                else
                    $date = get_the_date();
                $data .= '<span class="date updated fa-clock-o"><a class="" href="' . esc_url(get_permalink()) . '" title="' . esc_attr(get_the_time()) . '" rel="bookmark">';
                $data .= '<time class="entry-date" datetime="' . esc_attr(get_the_date('c')) . '">' . esc_html($date) . '</time></a></span> ';
                break;
            case 'updated_on' :
                if ((current_time('timestamp', 1) - get_the_modified_date('U')) < 86400)
                    $date = human_time_diff(get_post_modified_time('U'), current_time('timestamp')) . ' '.__('ago','swift');
                else
                    $date = get_the_modified_date();
                $data .= '<span class="date updated fa-clock-o"><a href="' . esc_url(get_permalink()) . '" title="' . esc_attr(get_post_modified_time()) . '" rel="bookmark">';
                $data .= '<time class="entry-date" datetime="' . esc_attr(get_the_modified_date('c')) . '">' . esc_html($date) . '</time></a></span> ';