Remove Personal Chat items

[JBM]

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to build a very minimal sidebar experience for a client, using only a few lines filled with Custom Hidebar Section Topic; and do not show anything else.

Thanks to @Lilly:

How to delete some sections from the sidebar

I made new sections of my sidebar menu via the but the old sections was showing up too, and it confuses my members, how do I delete the old ones?

i could do this to hide the Community, tags, messages and chat channels (yeah, not a very lean piece of code but it’s ok).

.sidebar-section[data-section-name="community"] {
  display: none
}
.sidebar-section[data-section-name="tags"] {
  display: none
}
.sidebar-section[data-section-name="messages"] {
  display: none
}
.sidebar-section[data-section-name="chat-channels"] {
  display: none
}

I would also like to also hide the Personal chats items, but i don’t find the corresponding data-section-name.

I hope this was not solved somewhere else… i have tried to make a tour of the support litterature, especially the very good piece of post of @shyguy, without success (at least for a rookie like me).

sidebarMod: Add/Remove Sidebar Links and Sections

sidebarMod here’s my script for modding the sidebar (first mentioned in the custom sidebar sections topic). it uses promises and MutationObserver to watch the sidebar for changes (e.g. from expanding or collapsing) and add/remove stuff in a performant way. i think i made it flexible enough for most use cases. you can add links (positioned by appending, prepending, or inserting before/after existing links), remove sections, remove links, and even remove ⋮More. it’s even possible to change th…

Tks a lot for any piece of help or advice!!

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PS: i am JB and this is my first post on this forum (after a couple of years of presence, and especially on the last 4/5 months). Thanks for this wonderfull community and software!

[Lilly]

hi @JBM. welcome to Meta.

does this work?

.sidebar-section[data-section-name="chat-dms"] {
  display: none
}

are you just wanting to hide chat stuff from the sidebar or are you wanting to turn off chat altogether? you can disable chat plugin in admin-plugins-chat-settings.

[Lilly]

also i think you can write all that code something more compact like this:

.sidebar-section[data-section-name="community"], .sidebar-section[data-section-name="tags"], .sidebar-section[data-section-name="messages"], .sidebar-section[data-section-name="chat-channels"], .sidebar-section[data-section-name="chat-dms"] {display: none}

[JBM]

Terrific !

This is exactly what i was looking for (inedeed, i just want to hide the group & personal chat from the minimalist sidebar and still keep it visible on the top header only)!

Tks for your prompt help (& your warm welcome!).