After a while, the block page becomes very crowded. This issue is about giving the Drupal admin the ability to hide blocks from showing up. Depending on how many contrib modules an admin is using, their blocks page may "go on forever" so to speak. It would be nice to hide blocks from view to keep this page a little tidier.

One good example is how adsense allows users to hide blocks from view in order to keep your ads manageable.

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bsherwood’s picture

bsherwood commented
Issue tags: +Usability

Tagged under "Usability" since I think this would help with the effort in making D7 more user friendly.

dgoldenbaum’s picture

dgoldenbaum commented
marcushenningsen’s picture

marcushenningsen commented

This would be a great feature. Has it gotten anywhere?

Marcus

Bojhan’s picture

Bojhan commented
Version: 7.x-dev » 8.x-dev

Sorry to late in the cycle for such a large change.

marcushenningsen’s picture

marcushenningsen commented

That's what I thought. Does anyone know of any contrib modules providing this feature?

Marcus

Yuri’s picture

Yuri commented

subscribing

timhilliard’s picture

timhilliard commented

Duplicate of #935698: Grouping blocks / Better block management

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

See: http://groups.drupal.org/node/67598

Bojhan’s picture

Bojhan commented

@Jeff I love the cross post, but we have no idea what the UI implications are.

Jeff Burnz’s picture

Jeff Burnz commented

Yoroy has broached the question in the Butler queue, right now I think no one has a real firm idea of what the UI might look like and in any case I would think its quite probably D9 material, I think the underlying concept is a Panels-esque UI.

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mstrelan commented

FWIW I just tried to hide all blocks from the Tagadelic module by implementing hook_block_info_alter(). I figured I could just unset $blocks['tagadelic'] and they would disappear. Turns out it deleted all my settings of all my blocks. Perhaps this is a bug, or perhaps it was just a very bad idea. So in response to "Does anyone know of any contrib modules providing this feature?" I'm guessing the answer is a big no.

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yoroy commented

Silly idea in the mean time that might help clean things up: add a collapsed fieldset at the bottom to tuck 'not in use' blocks away in.

swentel’s picture

swentel commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

The block screen has been revamped and only shows the blocks that are actually enabled. To add one, there's now a search form too.