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as in the autolinking and email notification during an activity update? You’ll need to remove all the filter hooks and the subnav for the mentions tab.

bunch of filters on bp_activity_at_name_filter, bp_activity_at_message_notification, groups_at_message_notification

bp_core_remove_subnav_item($bp->activity->slug, ‘mentions’)

(though i’m not if someone has created a plugin for it)

@rgauny + @rogercoathup:

Like Rich said, @mentions- are basically a filter and a nav item.
It should be possible to remove the filter and the nav item by doing the following:

1) Removing the filter

Add the following to your theme’s functions.php:

`
// 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 );
`

2) Removing the subnav:

Add the following to your theme’s functions.php:

`function ray_remove_mention_nav() {
global $bp;

bp_core_remove_subnav_item( $bp->activity->slug, ‘mentions’ );
}
add_action( ‘init’, ‘ray_remove_mention_nav’ );`

Then, copy over /bp-default/activity/index.php to your child theme and remove the hardcoded li#activity-mentions from /activity/index.php.

Et voila! @mentions- are gone!

Might turn this into a plugin if requested.

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*Edit: Also need to remove the table row on the “Settings > Notifications” page. This can be done by removing and duplicating the existing bp_activity_screen_notification_settings() function (located in /buddypress/bp-activity.php) hooked to the “bp_notification_settings” action.

@r-a-y I agree with many, this would be a valuable plugin on many sites I think! +1 for the plugin!

@r-a-y

Here’s an idea. When viewing a member’s page, instead of having a button that says “mention this user” — have it say instead, “post on /username/’s wall” and then have the same functionality that is applied to the @username mention, happen. Thoughts?

Two tweaks I would want to see:

1. When someone is visiting a member’s page then let’s /assume/ the visitor will want to post something that ‘mentions’ that member, and have the resulting posting form already shown!

2. If the above were implemented, then have the default text that gets placed into the resulting posting form ( @username) to still be there, but even if the user deletes it, send email to the member whose page got posted on.

@r-a-y

Thanks. I had found that same post yesterday and already applied it. Works great!

I like it because I get the benefit of “post on wall” type usability, and I still get the email notifications, which I think is an important feature. I now simply wish to have “ @username” tagging (mentions) to continue to work as always, yet I want to tweak the look of the site so user’s who don’t want to try to understand it don’t feel like they have to.

Also, regarding my #2 point above: The user who is doing the posting never has to type an “ @user” and cannot delete it from the posting form, because it gets added behind the scenes after he or she posts. Nice! Like I said, now I just need to tweak the site design to make the “mention this user” button go away, and perhaps rename the “mentions” filter menu choice.

I agree

@r-a-y

Can’t wait

@r-a-y

Thanks

I created a theme that comes with a true Facebook wall. It converts all @mentions into Wall posts that can be replied to and threaded on your profile and is extremely intuitive to use, and it makes use of some of the code in R-a-y’s plugin. You can get it at http://www.buddyboss.com.

or 1.5.7 ?