# Hide staff from /about page

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-from-about-page/256994
**Category:** Theme component
**Created:** [March 3, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-from-about-page/256994 "2023-03-03T20:12:58Z")
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### Author: ![nathank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/nathank/32/290039_2.png) [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2023, 11:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-staff-from-about-page/256994/12 "2023-04-07T23:05:55Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
>
> you can give me a hint and I can do it.

Music to my ears!!!

# Suggestion 1 - Hide mods too

Simply extend the existing functionality so that Moderators can also be hidden (using the same field) and call it ‘hidden staff’ instead.

This makes sense as Discourse cleverly ensures that each Staff user only appears in either Admins or Our Moderators (but not both). While there is less utility in hiding Moderators, there are still some use-cases such as having a test moderator.

# Suggestion 2: Hide Category Mods

It is quite common for folk to want to hide Category Mods, as they take up oodles of space and there is little value exposing them publicly outside of the context of the specific category.

Sometimes it makes sense to hide just some of the Category Mods categories, but expose others.

Easily achieved with CSS, for example on my site:

```css
// hide category moderators on /about page
section.about.category-moderators {
    display: none;
}

```

I’d do this by using a single field which allows either `all` or individual categories to be specified.

It might be helpful to be able to suppress some individuals, but I don’t think that it is worth adding that at this stage unless folk ask for it as it would need to be a bit more complex.

# Suggestion 3: Roll in Extended About text

> [@Extended About Page](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extended-about-page/193351):
>
> A simple theme component that lets you add custom html to extend the short site description on the /about page. So you could add more paragraphs and insert links, or images. The component provides an option to enter custom html: This content is added below the default site description on the /about page: You can also hide the default site description by checking this setting: [Screenshot from 2022-01-13 11-21-40] …

That is a super helpful TC, but it only does a single limited function. And would be dead easy to roll in.

It makes sense to me for all `/about` customisations to be in one place. Plus @manuel is a great dude and might well like to collaborate on this.

You might want to rename this TC ‘Custom About Page’ or similar if you go down this path.

### Sub-suggestion: Markdown

It would be even better if the extended about field accepted markdown rather than just raw HTML.

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