Good stuff so far..

As there are so many options for displaying information in the user section of a post it’s all controlled by template functions.

Not sure if you have a child theme there. If so, you will need to have a copy of spTopicViewDesktop.php in your templates > desktop folder. Open it up and take a look at ‘column 1 of the post row’ which starts on line 131.

Here are the relevant functions in the default template:

sp_PostIndexUserRank('tagClass=spPostUserRank spCenter&showBadge=1&hideIfSpecialRank=1');
sp_PostIndexUserSpecialRank('tagClass=spPostUserSpecialRank spCenter');
sp_PostIndexUserMemberships('tagClass=spPostUserMemberships spCenter');

Here are ours:

sp_PostIndexUserSpecialRank('tagClass=spPostUserSpecialRank spCenter&showTitle=0');
sp_PostIndexUserMemberships('tagClass=spPostUserMemberships spCenter&showTitle=0');

For starters, we don’t use sp_PostIndexUserRank, the function is removed so that eliminates one display of the users rank. Then where we use sp_PostIndexUserMemberships, we use the showTitle=0 argument which hides the text title leaving just the badge.

This isn’t the definitive way of doing it as there are lots of combinations, although it will result in the same display we have here.

As always, you can search each function by pasting the function name (i.e ‘sp_PostIndexUserMemberships’) in to the Codex search to see what arguments are available.

And of course if you don’t already have a child theme in place you will need to create one.

Hope that helps!

It did hide one of them, I can live with the other.  Thanks much.  Just an fyi to others, you can’t cheat and add this to the top level file spTopicView.php you’ll have to recreate the folder structure and add to both mobile and desktop.

Thanks!!

Yes, forgot to add that! Child theme folder structure has to be exactly the same as the parent.

If you want to get rid of whatever is still left, post a screenshot and your code and we can take a look.

I think I have 2 topics for this, sorry for the dupe.

No problem, as an extension to the ranks question but a separate issue I’ll continue in the other thread.