# Can I hide an admin?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-hide-an-admin/34504
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 14, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-hide-an-admin/34504 "2015-10-14T14:28:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-hide-an-admin/34504/1 "2015-10-14T14:28:09Z")
Hello, I need to hide an admin user from the staff list.
I don’t like that he shows in `/about` section.
How could I do that?
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### Author:  [@Yuun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yuun)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-hide-an-admin/34504/2 "2015-10-14T14:47:15Z")
I suppose if you wanted, you could just target the div for that admin on the /about page and set it to `display:none` in your admin/customize CSS. It seems to work on meta using Chrome’s inspector, at least.
I’ll admit I’m a bit curious as to why you want a secret admin, though.
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### Author:  [@SidV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SidV)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-hide-an-admin/34504/3 "2015-10-14T15:49:46Z")
> [@Yuun](#):
>
> I’ll admit I’m a bit curious as to why you want a secret admin, though.
In this case, I’ve got an investor that want to “see” how this site is going, but now he want to “disappear” 🙂
I’m thinking in change the username and put something like: “Secret admin” :lol:
About CSS, I don’t know how to set up that customization, sorry for my ignorance.
Regards!
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### Author:  [@Yuun](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yuun)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-hide-an-admin/34504/4 "2015-10-14T16:13:37Z")
Sorry, just went through and double checked with an actual customization, I don’t think applying a CSS rule will be enough since the div ids are, I guess, generated by ember, and are in any case not constant. Maybe there’s something you can do with javascript? Would have to ask someone else though, unfortunately.
What I get for writing out a quick solution without paying enough attention. 😄
I don’t know that there’s a setting for what you’re looking for, renaming the user to something innocuous would at least be the easiest thing to do.
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-hide-an-admin/34504/5 "2015-10-14T22:45:01Z")
If you’re self-hosted, this is possible with a plugin.
```plaintext
# plugin header here
module HideAdminNames
NAMES_TO_HIDE = %w(investordude blahblahblah).freeze
end
after_initialize do
class About
def admins
@admins ||= User.where(admin: true)
.where.not(id: Discourse::SYSTEM_USER_ID)
.where.not(username_lower: HideAdminNames::NAMES_TO_HIDE)
.order(:username_lower)
end
end
end
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-hide-an-admin/34504/6 "2018-11-15T12:55:07Z")
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### Author:  [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-hide-an-admin/34504/7 "2018-11-15T13:00:36Z")
The `div` that wraps around each admin’s information now has a data-attribute that matches their username. So you can use
```plaintext
.about.admins [data-username="USERNAME"] {
display: none;
}
```
to hide specific admins in that list - swap USERNAME with the username of the admin you want to hide.
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### Author:  [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2018, 1:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-hide-an-admin/34504/8 "2018-11-15T13:00:40Z")