How to Hide the "Add Blog Post" Button

[dylan hassinger]

In my Ning site, we are trying to steer all content into the forum. It was frustrating that Ning doesn't offer a clean way to do this.

The most obvious problem was the "Add Blog" link that's in the "Add Content" popup on the homepage. In fact just now a new user - one of the most prestigious investors in my city - created a blog post on my new site, and I had to ask him to repost it in the forums. (booooo)

But, I think I figured it out.  To get rid of the "Add Blog Post" button in the homepage popup, try adding this custom CSS - 

.xg_sprite-blog { display:none; }

Let me know if that works for you. Cheers!

[Speed Racer]

if you aren't going to allow blogs to be posted, why not simply remove the feature?

also, you can do what I suggested in this post to a discussion about the same issue if you want to keep both.

[dylan hassinger]

How do I simply remove the feature?  I tried and tried to do that, and asked in this forum but was told you can't do it.

P.S.  I also hid the "Blog posts" link on the user profile page, with this CSS: 

.module_user_summary ul.nobullets li:first-child { display : none; }

[Speed Racer]

woops, i forgot you cant remove them, sorry about that.

still, you can change the name from "Blogs" to "Articles", it completely helped the confusion on my network

[Hala Amer]

I changed blogs to articles, but I had a question,  in the "latest Activity module" when someone posts an article, it show as "so and so posted a new blog post".  The wording on everything else was changed to artciles but this is the only thing left that is still "blog post" and i can't seem to fix it.  any ideas?

[MyCreationz]

Try looking for  %1$s posted a blog post in the language editor and changing it to say article instead..

I would honestly just type BLOG into the language editor and change them all to ARTICLES

[Ken McLeod]

Thanks very much for this Dylan.  It worked beautifully. 

[dylan hassinger]

I was shocked that they can't be turned off, on a network I'm paying $25 a month for.  Fortunately, I know CSS :)

[Jayne]

I'm glad you could do what you wanted via css code Dylan. WE are a social network so like to have blogs..

I don't suppose there's any css code that would stop people sending out mass mail continually is there?

Some people just will not stop doing it, and some members don't like it because they feel if they have mail they have to answer.

I've asked time and time again for them not to do it too...

 

[dylan hassinger]

I'm assuming you mean, only let people select one person for an email?  Sorry I can't help with that, it's a complicated javascript/css thing.  :-/

[Lorraine Williams]

Hi Dylan

Thanks SO much for the CSS for hiding the blog, video (and I also hide the how to add via your phone bit too)  - worked like a charm!

Because Ning doesn't have the blog categories feature, I had to create all my blog posts in the forum using that categorisation (bit of a pain). Any idea how to change the heading 'Discussion' and 'View all Discussions', etc to say 'Articles' instead so it doesn't look too forumy??

Lo

[dylan hassinger]

Hi Lorraine - in this thread, they talk about how to change "Blogs" to "Articles" using the language editor.

http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/want-to-change-blog-posts-to?...

If you really want to , I'd imagine you can change "Discussions" to "Articles" the same way. good luck

[Lorraine Williams]

Hi Dylan

Thanks for that. I will definitely give it a go!

I had one more css question that maybe you can help with. I want to stop anybody from uploading videos, etc using their mobile phone. I've removed all 'Add' options everywhere else (using your suggestions eariler) but on Profile --> Settings page at the bottom, there are a couple of sections "Mobile Uploads" and "Credits" (or Gifts, whatever that's about) and I wanted to also hide those. However, I cannot for the life of me work out how to do it.

I have this in the CSS:

.xg_sprite-blog { display:none; }
.xg_sprite-add { display:none; }
.xg_profiles_settings_email_show { display:none; } <-- doesn't seem to work
.module_user_summary ul.nobullets li:first-child { display : none; }
.module_user_summary ul.nobullets li:last-child { display : none; }
.module_user_summary ul.nobullets li:nolegend profile { display : none; }

Do you have any ideas?

Thanks

Lorraine :)