Ability to hide "Details" including "Recently Viewed", "Popular Books", and "New Books" #3810

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OVERLORD · 2026-02-05T07:32:48+03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 07:32:48 +03:00

Originally created by @travisfont on GitHub (May 22, 2023).

Describe the feature you'd like

Simply put, it would hide these sections from users. This can be controlled through user group permissions.

Describe the benefits this would bring to existing BookStack users

Privacy

Can the goal of this request already be achieved via other means?

With quite a bit of CSS tweaking (one could consider this hacking the layout), but this does not actually hide the information from users (specifically guest and search engines) through HTML source code.

Have you searched for an existing open/closed issue?

I have searched for existing issues and none cover my fundemental request

How long have you been using BookStack?

1 to 5 years

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No response

Originally created by @travisfont on GitHub (May 22, 2023). ### Describe the feature you'd like Simply put, it would hide these sections from users. This can be controlled through user group permissions. ### Describe the benefits this would bring to existing BookStack users **_Privacy_** ### Can the goal of this request already be achieved via other means? With quite a bit of CSS tweaking (one could consider this hacking the layout), but this does not actually hide the information from users (specifically guest and search engines) through HTML source code. ### Have you searched for an existing open/closed issue? - [X] I have searched for existing issues and none cover my fundemental request ### How long have you been using BookStack? 1 to 5 years ### Additional context _No response_

OVERLORD added the 🔨 Feature Request label 2026-02-05 07:32:48 +03:00

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2026-02-05 07:32:50 +03:00

OVERLORD commented

2026-02-05 07:32:56 +03:00

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (May 22, 2023):

I generally try to avoid adding any kind of granular settings/options that relate specifically to UI elements such as this in the interest of maintainability. For this kind of thing, the visual theme system is the advised approach.

I'm going to close this off due to the above, and since I feel this is generally already covered by #1291.
Feel free to comment though if you need any pointers in regards to the visual theme system.

@ssddanbrown commented on GitHub (May 22, 2023): I generally try to avoid adding any kind of granular settings/options that relate specifically to UI elements such as this in the interest of maintainability. For this kind of thing, the [visual theme system](https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack/blob/development/dev/docs/visual-theme-system.md) is the advised approach. I'm going to close this off due to the above, and since I feel this is generally already covered by #1291. Feel free to comment though if you need any pointers in regards to the visual theme system.

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Reference: starred/BookStack#3810