How to Turn Off Related Posts in Hestia Theme

Culprit:  Hestia theme does not have a setting for “related posts”.  It’s a hand job to turn them off.

Research Links

• How to remove Related Posts from Hestia
• How to remove Related Posts from Hestia
• How to create a Child theme for Hestia

Steps

1. Go into control panel
2. Click on: APPEARANCE > THEME EDITOR
3. Click on Single Post (single.php)

At the end of the file you will see the code that adds the RELATED POSTS. See below

<?php
/**if ( ! is_singular( ‘elementor_library’ ) ) {
*    do_action( ‘hestia_blog_related_posts’ );
*}
*/
?>
<div class=”footer-wrapper”>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Comment out the code that adds the related posts as shown in the snippet above using asterisks and slashes.