I’ve been consulted by several users on how to remove the dropdown menu that appears on every member thumbnails in elgg. In this article I will show you how to How to remove that menu of the profile icons in Elgg.  With an FTP manager log in to your website and follow these steps:

1) Go to YourElggSite/mod/profile/views/default/profile and open the file javascript.php

2) Once opened, look for the avatar image menu link section in that file:

3) Remove that section of the file (the one that is inside the orange square).

4) Save your changes and run upgrade.php.

This now concludes How to remove the menu of the profile icons in Elgg.

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Rodolfo Hernandez