Remove about page

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The discussion revolves around removing or customizing the About page in Discourse. Julien_Bonnier asks how to remove the About page or hide certain administrators. j127 suggests using CSS to hide elements, but Julien_Bonnier notes this doesn’t remove them from the DOM. FunnySmile and awesomerobot explain that to fully remove elements, one must override the About page template in a theme, providing links to the relevant template and instructions. jserre questions if there’s a setting to hide the About page entirely, to which JammyDodger replies that no such setting exists, but a feature request has been made for it here.

1

Hi,

Is there any way to remove the about page or at least control the information that is in it?
Like not displaying some administrators.

2

You can use CSS like this. Put the username where it says “Bob”.

.about-page div[data-username="Bob"] {
    display: none !important;
}
3

Well, this is hiding an element, but it is still in the DOM.

4

You can try using js scripts to block

5

To remove it from the DOM completely you’d have to override the about page template in a theme… there’s some detail about how to do that here: (not recommended) Overriding Discourse templates from a Theme or Plugin

The default template is this one: discourse/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/templates/about.hbs at 9e440dca332c0e2879a1a6a4ee49347aba33d1ef · discourse/discourse · GitHub

And to override you’d want to copy the contents of the above file, add them to {theme}/javascripts/discourse/templates/about.hbs, and modify as you see fit. You could remove all admins by simply removing this block…

{{#if this.model.admins}}
  <section class="about admins">
    <h3>{{d-icon "users"}} {{i18n "about.our_admins"}}</h3>

    <AboutPageUsers @users={{this.model.admins}} />
    <div class="clearfix"></div>
  </section>
{{/if}}

If you wanted to remove only some admins you’d probably need to override the route to add your own filter (the default route is here: discourse/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/app/routes/about.js at 098ab29d4150a5a39880d59ef6cad5f6795a18fd · discourse/discourse · GitHub)

6

Maybe I’ve not drilled deep enough, but I haven’t found a setting to completely hide the “About” page for all users (or at least to all users but Admins).

Am I missing something?

7

No, you’re not missing anything. There is currently no setting for this. There is a Contribute > Feature request to add one, which you have already commented on:

8

Thank you!