Removing Social Media

[NooBoards]

My forum places a high priority on anonymity and the Social Media functionality of default ProBoards represents a direct threat to that priority.

I was having good success using the Social Manager plugin and then hiding the Post Sharing feature by adding this line to the Style Sheet:

.sharing { display: none !important;}
When I started noticing some unexpected and unacceptable behavior from using the Social Manger plugin the idea occurred to me to simply edit away the Social Media functionality from the Templates and Layouts as indicated is possible here. Since I am interested in removing all of this functionality in its entirety and permanently I was wondering if anyone can provide a list of all the locations that would need to be edited out.

[Tumbleweed]

Hi NooBoards,

Just following up on posts that seem to have been missed. Have you been able to work this out? 

[NooBoards]

No I haven't if I figure out alone I will post the solution.

[jok3r]

support.proboards.com/thread/490566/social-manager-template

I had request a template solution for the same and it was solved by David Clark

Nov 14, 2013 14:05:08 GMT -8 David Clark said:

jok3r, the tabs are generated by a foreach loop that just runs through the list of menu items, so to remove it you'll need an if statement. In your Edit Profile template you should see this code:



{foreach $[menu]}

<li{if $[menu.active]} class="ui-active"{/if}><a href="$[menu.href]">$[menu.text]</a></li>

{/foreach}

Using this instead should ensure the Social tab does not appear.

{foreach $[menu]}

{if $[menu.text] == "Social"}{else}

<li{if $[menu.active]} class="ui-active"{/if}><a href="$[menu.href]">$[menu.text]</a></li>

{/if}

{/foreach}

Keep in mind that while users won't be able to access the section via this button, they will still be able to by going to YOURFORUMURL.proboards.com/user/THEIR-USER-ID/social - pretty sure the plugin disables the section even when visiting the URL directly, and this can't be done via template modification.