Remove Personal Chat items

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Remove Personal Chat items discussion summary:

JBM wants to create a minimalist sidebar experience with only a few custom sections and no other items. They found a way to hide the Community, tags, messages, and chat channels sections, but needed help hiding the Personal chats items. Lilly provided the solution by suggesting .sidebar-section[data-section-name="chat-dms"] { display: none }. Lilly also showed how to compact the code into a single line. JBM confirmed that this solution works for their use case, which is to hide group and personal chat from the minimalist sidebar while keeping it visible on the top header.

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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:

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).


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


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

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hi @JBM. welcome to Meta. :wave:

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.

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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}
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Terrific :star_struck:!

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!).