Discourse 3.6.0.beta3-latest (3183a95823). A new Anniversaries option has appeared in my menu: [Screenshot 2025-11-26 at 18.52.37] I cannot remove it because it does not appear in the list custom list :pensive_face: [Screenshot 2025-11-26 at 18.54.04]

That’s added by the discourse-cakeday plugin — disabling the plugin should remove it. Or, do you want to keep the plugin enabled and simply remove the link?

In case you want to hide it with CSS: I wrote a little about hiding links that plugins add to the sidebar in Configuring the default sidebar for your users

[image] awesomerobot: Or, do you want to keep the plugin enabled I don’t even know what a cakeday is, much less if I want to keep it :rofl: I’ve disabled the plugin, that’s removed it - thanks!

[image] Richie: I don’t even know what a cakeday is this will help explain :smiley: [image] Discourse Cakeday Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse Cakeday decorates user avatars with a celebratory emoji on the anniversary of their joining day, and (optionally) on their birthday too. cake birthday open_book Install Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. Enabling Cakeday The Cakeday plugin is default enabled but can be disabled/enabled from its settings, accessed from your admin/plugins page: [Cakeday settings] Features …

It was added to core a few weeks ago, and it’s enabled by default :partying_face: plugins/discourse-cakeday/config/settings.yml 26bdb3d44 cakeday_enabled: default: true client: true [image]Bundling more popular plugins with Discourse core All these plugins will remain disabled by default, so this won’t have any visible impact on existing communities.

[image] Moin: and it’s enabled by default Ah-ha, that’ll explain how and why it appeared out of nowhere then, thanks :smiley:

How do I remove the Anniversaries option from the burger menu?

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Richie (Richie Rich) November 27, 2025, 6:51pm 7

Ah-ha, that’ll explain how and why it appeared out of nowhere then, thanks

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How do I remove the Anniversaries option from the burger menu?

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