How Do I Hide Member Portraits From Conversation Views?

By default, Ploneboard shows the member portrait of each commenter, and a generic image for those with no portraits. Some site admins may want to alter this behavior and show no portraits at all.

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There are two ways to hide member portaits in Ploneboard:

Via CSS

You can hide portraits simply by putting a line in ploneCustom.css or another custom CSS file that reads:

.commentPortrait {
 display: none;
}

This is quick and simple, and doesn't modify Ploneboard's code. There's probably no reason not to simply do this.

Via Modifying the comment_view template

You can also excise member portraits entirely by modifying the "comment_view.pt" template. You can customize this template through the ZMI by going to portal_skins -> Ploneboard -> ploneboard_templates -> comment_view and clicking "customize." More adavanced developers may wish to modify this template on the filesystem.

Simply remove the lines

<tal:block define="portrait python:here.portal_membership.getPerson$
    <div class="commentPortrait">
       <a href="" title="View profile"
       tal:attributes="href string:${portal_url}/author/${creator}"    
       i18n:attributes="title"
       tal:omit-tag="python:creator=='Anonymous'">
           <img class="portraitPhoto"
               src="defaultUser.gif"
               alt=""
               border="0"
               width="75"
               height="100"
               tal:attributes="src portrait/absolute_url" /> 
        </a>
     </div>
</tal:block>