How to Remove @mentions from BuddyPress
This tip comes to you courtesy of r-a-y, one of the BuddyPress forums moderators. He outlined three steps to removing @mentions in a recent thread on the forums:
Step 1: Remove the filter:
Add this to your theme’s functions.php file:
// removes @mention links in updates, forum posts, etc. remove_filter( 'bp_activity_new_update_content', 'bp_activity_at_name_filter' ); remove_filter( 'groups_activity_new_update_content', 'bp_activity_at_name_filter' ); remove_filter( 'pre_comment_content', 'bp_activity_at_name_filter' ); remove_filter( 'group_forum_topic_text_before_save', 'bp_activity_at_name_filter' ); remove_filter( 'group_forum_post_text_before_save', 'bp_activity_at_name_filter' ); remove_filter( 'bp_activity_comment_content', 'bp_activity_at_name_filter' ); // remove @mention email notifications remove_action( 'bp_activity_posted_update', 'bp_activity_at_message_notification', 10, 3 ); remove_action( 'bp_groups_posted_update', 'groups_at_message_notification', 10, 4 );
Step 2: Remove the subnav:
Add this to your theme’s functions.php file:
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function ray_remove_mention_nav() { global $bp; bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $bp->activity->slug, 'mentions' ); } add_action( 'init', 'ray_remove_mention_nav' );
Step 3: Remove the hardcoded menu item:
Copy over /bp-default/activity/index.php
to your child theme and remove the hardcoded li#activity-mentions from /activity/index.php.
R-a-y mentioned that he might turn this into a plugin if anyone is interested. Stop over to this thread and let him know how much you like his hack. :)