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Hey Brandon,

The who's online plugin literally displays who is online in the footer, the rest is handled by the theme itself. So to remove, firstly you will need to set up a child theme if you've not already done so - You can download a free child theme framework for whichever forum theme you are using here.

Next you will need to take a few minutes to set up your child theme for your own use, you can read more about that here.

The SP theme you're using will determine what template you need to add to your child theme. For example:

- If you're using Barebones or Reboot, you will need to copy over the spFootDesktop.php from the parent themes templates > desktop folder to your child themes templates > desktop folder.

- If you're using one of the other themes you will just need to copy spFoot.php from your parent themes templates folder to your child themes templates folder.

The sections in the foot template you will need to look at are sp_AdminsList, sp_ModsList, sp_TopPostersStats, sp_NewMembers, sp_ForumStats and sp_MembershipStats. Also please note that in Unified the desktop and mobile template functions are part of the same template, so make sure you are looking at the section inside the if($spDevice != 'mobile') { check.

You can pick and choose which ones you want to remove as the names give away their purpose - For example you might want to leave sp_AdminsList and spModsList or you may want to remove them as well.

Lastly, when you know what you want to remove, make sure you also remove the columns that surround each object. The easiest way of doing this is to comment out instead of deleting by putting a hash (#) in front of each line i.e:

#sp_ColumnStart('tagClass=spColumnSection spRight spTopPosterStats&width=15%&height=0');
#    sp_TopPostersStats('tagClass=spRight', __sp('Top Posters: '));
#sp_ColumnEnd();

Hope that helps!

I've tried to give a detailed step by step above, at least as much as you should need. I've never used cPanel to edit site files so if it's possible I'm not familiar with the process I'm afraid. 

You can edit the spFoot.php template directly from the dashboard under Forum > Theme Editor, but first you will need to copy the spFoot.php template from Reboot to the child themes templates > desktop folder which can't be done within the dashboard. I believe you can do this using cPanels File Manager however.

So other than that information, the rest is still valid in post #2, although it might seem complex it shouldn't actually take long, and it's always worth being able to make small edits here and there via a child theme.

Maybe give this a try:

The Simple:Press Codex has a page on Creating a child theme at :

https://simple-press.com/docum.....ild-theme/

Step 10 is about changing template files in a child theme.  Step 10B shows copying the 'spFoot.php' file from the "Default" parent theme to the child "DefChi" theme and then making modifications to the 'spFoot.php' file in the "DefChi" child theme.  It has some graphics showing a typical file structure.

Instead of going to the "Default" theme files structure to get a file to move to the child theme of the default theme, you would go to the "Reboot" parent theme file structure  at ...wp-content >sp-resources > forum-themes > reboot > templates > desktop and copy the 'spFootDesktop.php' file into the similar location within the file structure of your Reboot Child Theme.

Then open the 'spFootDesktop.php' file in the Reboot child theme and change it the way Ike has described in post 2 above.

Hope this sheds a little light on the process.