Getting rid of age and gender entirely on 7.0.9

Hi all,  I need to get rid of all displays of age and gender on m 7.0.9 site.  It is a business site and there are several catch-22's if you don't collect the data.  The mass email won't work, for example, but other functions cause problems as well.   For this reason, I decided to just capture it anyway, but I don't want it to display - anywhere.   Can anyone tell me how to do this in 7.0.9 - it probably needs to be in the code.     

Go to page builder and remove them by selecting the block on the page where it displays.

Are you seeing any problems if the age field in the database is NULL?

@moonsoon - not all blocks can be moved - this was one of them.

@GG - not completely sure what you mean - as I recall leaving age off called all sorts of problems.   That is why I thought  would just get rid of it in the code, not in the database. 

Why did age cause a problem?  I need specific information to help.  Is it that the age field in sending certain emails is causing an issue because the form requests an age/age range and it can not be NULL (empty; NULL is no data at all, spaces does not constitute a NULL)?  If so, then we will remove that from the form processor.  I think I am getting an idea; 7.0.9 still had a lot of "dating" stuff in it in which age is an important parameter. The answer is probably going to involve custom code changes.  We probably should list areas (7.0.9 specific) where age is causing issues in a site that does not need age data on the members.

@GG - yes, one of the issues was that you have to specify and age and date range to be able to send a mass email - which never made sense to me even for a dating app.   There were a number of other "catch 22" issues that made it very difficult to have that be a null field.   I seem to remember I couldn't even set the age over 70, which caused some embarrassment when a highly influential business person was unable to register.   I will try to remember / compile those issues. 

What if you remove DOB on join form..Will that help? you can increase the age limit by clicking on the DOB block in advance you can put any limit.

From what I could see, we have to capture age and "sex" or parts of the site will not function correctly.  I made it very clear to those registering that age and sex-category info would be kept private... to only them and the site admin.  I allow site members to change their age/sex info when they edit their site account details. 

Then I went through the various types of pages on the site and in most cases I used CSS to remove the info... such that it never loads onto the page... meaning it cannot be seen when searching the browser page source HTML code.  You can also go into the php/html code and comment the code used to display age and "sex" info.  I did a little of both.

Paul :-)