Hiding Who’s Replying to a Topic
Kuro22 wants to hide who’s replying to a certain topic. JammyDodger suggests turning off the presence enabled admin setting to completely disable the feature. Alternatively, JammyDodger provides a CSS code to target hiding it for a specific category by using the category slug.
Kuro22 tries the code but initially fails to hide the replying status. JammyDodger re-confirms the code works for them and suggests checking the category slug for any mistakes.
Kuro22 eventually resolves the issue by correcting the misspelled slug, and the code works as expected.
I installed always-anonymous-categories plugin. And I enabled Force posts to be anonymous for a category to make it easier for users to post anonymously there. But this problem comes, in some rare cases, people can see who’s attempting to reply to an anonymous topic, when a user replies without entering anonymous mode.
There’s the presence enabled admin setting if you’d like to turn it off completely?
After a little exploration, I believe you can use a touch of CSS to target hiding it for a specific category. I’ve only given it a brief test, but it seems to work as expected (replace SLUG for the slug of your category):
body.category-SLUG div.presence-users {
display: none;
}
As it’s CSS, it can be ‘unhidden’ using safe mode or the browser inspector, but may be enough for your use-case?
Thank you!! This works well.
Yes, it would be perfect if we can do this. But I tried your code the replying status is still not hidden.
That’s unfortunate. 
I’ve just tested it again, and it hides it for me?
This is my code for my discussion category:
body.category-discussion div.presence-users {
display: none;
}
It does work by using the category slug, rather than the category name. Could it be possible that something has gone awry adding yours to the code snippet?
It works perfectly now. I misspelled the slug. 
Forgive my incautiousness.
Beyond grateful!
