I don't have forums on my site. I removed the plugin. I didn't want a forum.

ok thats fine... just needed to check.. 

to be sure we are on the same page here is a picture of the profile section.  do i have this right.. 

Yes, but also there is a wall widget on both profiles and groups where you can leave comments but can't reply or like like you can on that

ok let me see if i can find the wall widget i dont think i have ever seen one.  But let me look.  I have a gut feeling that if it is a widget (and lets hope i am wrong here) that it is in js... if it is in php we got it made i can do this with you.. but if its js we are screwed because i suck at js...   so one mine let me find it first. 

Ah okay! It's when you go to group settings, you can see the widget

ok found them both i had to drag them down, i have never ever used those...  I named mine profile wall and group wall so i dont get confused.  

Ok now let me go take a look at them on the users side  one side 

Okay! Yeah I had to drag it down otherwise it would have been the sitewide news feed :-(

looks like we might be able to add the comment icon but let me find the code first, this might take a bit so hold on please 

awesome! Thank you! Okay!

OK the part we want to copy   which is the comment icon

is in 

ow_plugins/newsfeed/views/components/feed_item.html 

on about line 61

let me look at the other code for where we may want to add it now and see what we can do, i dont know if this can be done in a plugin or not, we may have to edit the core.  

what we want to change is ow_system_plugins/base/views/components/comments.html

But its linked to js in ow_static/plugins/base/js/ow.js  

so i cant do it dear sorry i would not know what i was doing with the js end of it and we would prob end up with a big mess on our hands.  

Ahhh I see. Well you tried your best! Thank you for your time and effort to help though!

not done yet hold on a sec lol....  i might be able to limit your group feeds with a single change, i just have to find the section i know what it looks like i just have to find it

open up ow_plugins/groups/classes/event_handler.php

look at lines 311 and 432  

the visiblity variable or number is what you want to change, you can hard code it or you can find just above that where visibility value is set in a php ternary statment if  you know what that is, its on line 291

and then on 432 just change the value.. 

Now i dont know which one does what, i dont know if you need to change both or just one, but here is what the values mean

        // 1 VISIBILITY_SITE

        // 4 VISIBILITY_AUTHOR

        // 8 VISIBILITY_FEED

       // 15 VISIBILITY_ALL

so you prob just want the feed so that means that the bottom one might be ok since it is 8 already. 

But change one value and try it and see if its one you want. 

Hope that helps 

here is a site that can help you with that ternary statement to understand it. 

http://www.abeautifulsite.net/how-to-use-the-php-ternary-operator/