Hi Katherine,
How are you getting on with this? I want to achieve the exact same thing so I am interested! So far I have identified the code that displays the Popular Resources and can comment that out. Although I wonder if there is a simple config setting to achieve the same thing.
I've noticed the the Popular Resources are controlled from within the <WAR>/optimized-scripts folder. So firstly I changed the following setting to false in order to be able to run the non-optimized version of the scripts. So in WEB-INF/js.config.properites
# Control default value of javascript optimization in runtime
javascript.optimize=false
Then in <WAR>/scripts/home folder, the file view/HomeView.js has this statement near the bottom:
this.$(".homeSidebar-title").after(this.popularLinksBlock.render().$el);
which adds in the Popular Resources.
Then also this in template/homeTemplate.htm:
<!--Popular Links-->
<div style="height:24px;"></div>
So I commented those two out and that removed the Popular Resources. However, it would be necessary to recompile the scripts with the changes so that the optimized versions can be used. I haven't got to that stage yet!
Regards
James