Why is the Social bar showing on home page of a communication site?

Question

I have a Hub site and the home page is a communications site. On this site the social bar is shown. I thought the default behaviour was for this to be hidden. Please see attached image. How can i remove this, i have tried unsetting this as homepage and resetting but this did not work.

Answer 1

Hi @Shazmeister ,

You can try this PowerShell script to disable social bar.

#Set Parameters
$AdminCenterURL="https://domain-admin.sharepoint.com"
$SiteURL = "https://domain.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename"
 
#Connect to SharePoint Online
Connect-SPOService -Url $AdminCenterURL -Credential (Get-Credential)
 
#Disable Social Bar on Site Pages
Set-SPOSite -Identity $SiteURL -SocialBarOnSitePagesDisabled $True

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Answer 2

Hi @Shazmeister ,

Please try this PowerShell script:

1, Get the ComponentId of the Site Feed web part:

# Connect to SharePoint Online
Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/yoursite -UseWebLogin
# Get the ComponentId of the Site Feed web part
Get-PnPClientSideComponent -Scope Web | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "SiteFeed"}

2, Disable the social bar on the home page through ComponentId:

# Disable social bar on home page
Set-PnPClientSideWebPart -Page "Home.aspx" -Identity "SiteFeed" -ComponentId "ComponentId" -Properties @{"FeedType"="None"}

Replace "https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/sites/yoursite" with the URL of your SharePoint Online site, and "Home.aspx" with the name of your home page if it's different. This script disables the social bar on the home page by setting the "FeedType" property of the "SiteFeed" web part to "None".

Please note that you need to have the SharePoint PnP PowerShell module installed to run this script.

There is a post of Salaudeen Rajack about pnp PowerShell module for your reference:

https://www.sharepointdiary.com/2018/03/connect-to-sharepoint-online-using-pnp-powershell.html

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