SharePoint 2010: Hiding the Recently Modified on Team Sites

I was asked today about hiding the Recenlty Modified menu from the quicklaunch of SharePoint 2010 Team Sites.

SharePoint 2010: Expand the User Profile info by default

Out of the box, the SharePoint 2010 User Profile page uses a bit of JavaScript to truncate the user’s info like Email, School etc. with a “more information” hyperlink that can be clicked to show all the info.  The user’s description text is also similarly semi-hidden on page load.

The following quick CSS hack can make both these detail areas fully visible by default, and also hide the “more information” / “hide information” hyperlink”:

SharePoint 2010: minimal.master

When you create a custom minimal.master it’s also required to have all the placeholders defined. We already know this from the v4.master but why are they needed when they are not used? They are necessary for the edit mode of the minimal masterpage. When you edit a minimal masterpage and you have only defined the minimal.master placeholder you get error messages like “Cannot find ContentPlaceHolder ‘PlaceHolderLeftNavBar’ in the master page '~masterurl/default.master', verify content control's ContentPlaceHolderID attribute in the content page.”

List of all the required ContentPlaceHolders:

SharePoint list view group by content type

By default it’s not possible to group your list items by contenttype. After some research on internet I founded a solution on codeplex:

SharePoint 2010 ViewEdit Group By Content Type

Actually it’s nothing more than adding some javascript with a script link to each page.