Disabling stub discussions

websfere

Hello. Regarding version 2.5, I have tried disabling stub discussions from plugins (dashboard), but the stub discussions still remain on the site. Is anyone else having this issue? How can this be fixed? Thank you.

R_J

Not sure about that, but I think the only way to avoid having that data would be to alter file /conf/config-defaults.php and change
$Configuration['EnabledPlugins']['stubcontent'] = true; to
$Configuration['EnabledPlugins']['stubcontent'] = false;
before you install Vanilla. I don't think there is a good way to purge the contents inserted by that plugin. Maybe you should raise that as an issue on github.

websfere

Thank you R_J. I will try your recommendations.

River

@websfere said:
Thank you R_J. I will try your recommendations.

That would be the best way via config

Pre-installation....

but for a learning experience - you could comment out

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/plugins/stubcontent/class.stubcontent.plugin.php#L88

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/plugins/stubcontent/class.stubcontent.plugin.php#L91

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/plugins/stubcontent/class.stubcontent.plugin.php#L94

for a learning experience you could experiment....

note that only the first line conversations.

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/plugins/stubcontent/content/conversation.yaml

if you remove lines 3 to the end in any file (if you want partial insertion without additional users)

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/plugins/stubcontent/content/comment.yaml

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/plugins/stubcontent/content/discussion.yaml

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/plugins/stubcontent/content/user.yaml

it would prevent the discussions, comments and users from being inserted

or you could change the discussions and comments "author line to "system or any user you want" if you wanted

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/plugins/stubcontent/content/discussion.yaml#L4

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/plugins/stubcontent/content/discussion.yaml#L25

and so on.

in the files if you wanted to keep the contents and discussions but not have additional users.

The gotcha to all of these

editing conf/config-defaults.php or editing the plugin are all invasive to core files and will be overwritten during next update.

websfere

You are very thorough. Thank you River.

Linc

Just delete the plugin from the package before installing.

websfere

All of the above work. Thanks.