Add an easy way to hide forums sections from localized helphub sites that don’t use forum feature

[audrasjb]

Some Locales don't have any forum but use locale.wordpress.org/support to provide a localized helphub (documentation) instance.

However, the homepage of their helphub website displays a forum search widget in the header and some forum-related informations in the footer.

It would be nice to provide a simple way to hide forums sections from localized helphub sites that don’t use forum feature. I think a customizer option would probably be the easiest way to hide these sections.

Workaround patch coming.

[audrasjb]

Example URL: ​https://fr.wordpress.org/support

[audrasjb]

HelpHub: Add a basic Customizer setting to hide forums sections from localized helphub sites that don’t use forum feature

[audrasjb]

HelpHub: Add a basic Customizer setting to hide forums sections from localized helphub sites that don’t use forum feature

[audrasjb]

5233.2.diff is a proposal to fix this issue.

This patch adds a customizer setting to OPT-IN to hide the forum front-end elements, and check if this setting is checked before displaying forum elements on the /support homepage (search form and footer).

[ocean90]

This shouldn't require an extra setting in the customizer. Instead it can be hidden by default based on the the number of available forums. If it's 0 hide the search form and the last section

But the bigger issue seems to be that there's no proper search on localized support sites which also searches the support articles. It shouldn't be too complicated to override ​https://fr.wordpress.org/support/search/ to also search support articles (by default)?