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Ok well if I were you I’d buy solspace user and template the front end exactly how you want, and just have members log in there instead of the CP. Id also ask the client if they really want/need private messaging - seems a bit pointless unless your members are complete strangers and dont want to give out their email. I bet you could ‘hack’ your own private messaging functionality just using safecracker. Where you have a channel called ‘messages’ that you relate to a user in a custom field…

Rest assured you’re not the only one that wants to get rid of the icq/aol fields!

Cool, that would be interesting to know. From what I have read in other threads from support it isn’t possible. And looking through the code it seems to be hard-coded. Though if I could like you say at least hide them via css but doesn’t seem to be a way to target them that way either.

Well apparently all the cp themes used to be in there, up until EE2.2, hence the confusion. Theres a strange but useful behaviour on one of our installs where we can copy a file from system/ee/views into /themes/cp_themes/default, modify it andthe modified file overrides the one in the system folder

interesting - which folder or files in views should be copied?

Are the missing CP files an error on EE’s side or deliberate? Should I contact them directly?

I think it was deliberate, you’re probably not ‘supposed’ to edit them. All I know is that we got this working on one of our sites.

ANother option is write an add-on which simply hides the unwanted fields with JS

Hi Stevo_s & Dave @ Exp:resso,

You two sure are a talkative bunch 😊

Stevo_s, as Dave mentioned User gets you quite a bit of functionality that is not available natively. And another add-on that is looking really good right now is Zoo Visitor which has a lot of the same functionality and then some. I believe both of these would allow you to control user fields from the front end. So that in combination with a safecracker form to add posts would solve your problem I think.

We really do not suggest modifying core themes or files at all since this will inevitably lead to issues further down the road when you go to update.

Let me know if I have misunderstood.

Thanks Marcus for suggesting Zoo Visitor. 
Stevo_s, if you have any questions about it, just shoot

Great thread so moving it to Community Help forum in case anybody else wishes to chime in