Hide user's real name in Confluence comments?

[Robert Hall]

I have a client requirement to hide or obfuscate user's names in comments on Confluence pages. Wondering if this is possible with a plugin or possibly modifying vm files in confluence itself ?

[Renjith Pillai]

If a quick hack, you can add this to your space header and get rid of the user-logo and the username

AJS.$('.comment-header').remove();

AJS.$('.comment-user-logo').remove();

[MatthewC]

snap! sort of..... jquery to remove the data from the DOM or get the browser to hide it.

Both solutions have the same strength & weaknesses. The data is still there for those that want to dig deep enough.

[Robert Hall]

Thanks for the suggestions. I modified a specific velocity template (comments.vmd in <confluence-install-dir>/confluence/decorators/components and it worked. A comments now have 'Customer' as the author.

[MatthewC]

There is one way you could without a plugin, it's not 100% effective as the name is still in the source of the page, but you could use CSS to hide the name.

.comment-header h4.author {
visibility: hidden;
}

.comment-user-logo {
visibility: hidden;
}

and some links on how to get the CSS in there

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS

[Ellen Feaheny [AppFusions]]

Yes, it would be possible with a custom plugin. I do not know of one that is available otherwise..

We could help you with this if needed - info@appfusions.com

[UdayK]

We can do it by changing the vm files. If you want i can try for you- uday.madigatla@gmail.com

[MatthewC]

That would affect every space in Confluence, maybe a bit wide reaching?