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Welcome Oliver,

Yes you can remove or change pretty much anything you like through the theme templates. I'm going to assume you are basically familiar with templates and functions.

Using 'Default' theme as an example, find your forum themes folder and navigate to:

sp-resources > forum-themes > default > templates >

and open spGroupView.php, and spForumView.php.

Starting with group view, you will want to comment out the function 'sp_ForumIndexStatusIcons' by placing a '#' at the start so it will appear:

#sp_ForumIndexStatusIcons('tagClass=spStatusIcon spCenter', __sp('This forum is locked'), __sp('This forum has unread posts in %COUNT% topic(s)'), __sp('Add new topic in this forum'), __sp('No permission to start topics'));

Then in forum view, you will want to do the same to the function 'sp_TopicIndexStatusIcons'

It's best to comment them out as if you ever want to add them back later, all you need to do is remove the '#' from the start.

We always recommend making a custom theme or child theme to preserve the changes you've made upon updating.

Hope this helps!

It's not an easy one to fix unfortunately. I've found one trick that does work, but I can't tell exactly how it's going to behave. Each forum is going to be a different height depending on what information is held within it.

You would first need to give that column a unique class, so open your spGroupView.php template again, find the column which the function for the status icons was inside (# Column 3 of the forum row) and underneath in the function sp_ColumnStart - you will need to define a new tagClass to make this one column unique - I have used 'yourColumnClassName':

sp_ColumnStart('tagClass=yourColumnClassName spRight&width=14%&height=100%');

You will then need to add the new class you've created to your style sheet (forum-themes > default > styles > default.php) along with these lines:

#spMainContainer .yourColumnClassName {
    position: relative;
    top: 50%;
    transform: translateY(25%);
}

This should center it. At least using default locally I have had success with this trick.

Of course there are other methods, namely flexbox, but you would need to apply this to the parent container (.spGroupForumSection) which will fix your alignment problem perfectly, but will cause 20 odd other elements to go out of line, including some of the columns. It's a big undertaking but it's the only way I know of to get perfect alignment throughout.

Good luck!