[image] I’m aware these are all always visible to admins by default. But let’s say I don’t want to see them on my personal site I’m building on Discourse, even as an admin. How could I hide all of these topics in all categories?

You can unlist them but then you’ll still see them because you are an admin. :thinking: Though you could mute the topics.

Maybe this is possible with CSS?

I’m not sure they have a dedicated class? I think I’d try the ‘tag them all and mute the tag’ approach as it seems like the most minimum effort. (But unlist them for everyone else’s benefit) Out of curiosity, why do you want to hide them from yourself?

Out of curiosity, why do you want to hide them from yourself? Honestly? I just don’t like seeing them. If I go to my blog…I just want to see my blog too :slight_smile: I found a solution. This obviously isn’t a scalable solution, and may even not be technically optimal (not sure how this would b…

If you’re curious on the enterprise take (because I know I posted/you responded about this many moons ago), it’s just an inconsistent administrative experience to have a Discourse topic utilized as a category setting, while no other category settings are represented as a Discourse topic. It’s very d…

Also, EDIT: Bummer. It looks like the script I linked to above only works the first time the webpage is loaded in the browser. If you navigate around the site and come back, those elements return. With my limited (read: absolutely zero) web dev knowledge, I assume it’s because DOMContentLoaded isn…

I think if you’re looking to hide just one topic then you can probably do that with CSS. My CSS is poor, but I can see the data-topic-id in there, so it can likely be targeted? [image] Jordan Violet: I also see these About topics renamed, utilized as getting started guides (I do this myself, th…

[image] JammyDodger: I think the best thing to do with them, as is, is just to leave them as category descriptions and close them off There is a Contribute > Feature topic about changing the default [image] About Category Auto-Created Topic - Sitewide Options Feature …

This is an update that works perfectly for my use case. If you want to hide a particular topic via CSS, on page load and henceforth, this will do it. Just add your topic IDs to the list of topic IDs: <script> document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { var topicIdsToHide = ["1…

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Moin May 18, 2024, 1:47pm 2

You can unlist them but then you’ll still see them because you are an admin. Though you could mute the topics.

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