This tip comes to you courtesy of r-a-y, one of the BuddyPress forums moderators. He outlined three steps to removing @mentions in a recent thread on the forums: Step 1: Remove the filter: Add this to your theme’s functions.php file: // removes @mention links in updates, forum posts, etc. remove_filter( ‘bp_activity_new_update_content’, ‘bp_activity_at_name_filter’ ); remove_filter( ‘groups_activity_new_update_content’, … Continue reading How to Remove @mentions from BuddyPress