Turning off Likes

Hi Parker,

Liking cannot be disabled on these types; modifying the related widgets to remove the link to like the content is the way to prevent this.

Rating is controlled by permissions for the Blog and Forum applications ("Rate Posts" and "Rate Discussions, Questions and Replies", respectively). These are controllable at the individual group and application levels.

right ok, thanks! I will leave this one with the web developers then

While it is possible to edit all these widgets, a simpler approach would be to override the like UI Component. UI components are platform defined bits of common UI functionality shared across multiple widgets and implemented by JavaScript, designed to be overridden globally.

For example, you can override the like UI component to essentially do nothing by adding the following to your theme's theme.js, or anywhere else that runs client-side script (widget, etc).

$.telligent.evolution.ui.components.like = {
    setup: function() { },
    add: function(elm, options) {}
};

Hope this helps!

Ok thanks Michael! I'm about to do some web dev basic training, which will include JavaScript, so hopefully I should be able to do this soon!