Only show the amount of views in Advanced Forum

Question

I am using the 'Advanced Forum' module in Drupal 7 and I want to have a 'Views' column in the topic list. I have managed to do this using the Statistics module, but now at the bottom of every node it says '## reads', much to my dislike. Therefore, I would like to remove every visible view count; only leaving the views column in the 'Advanced Forum'.

Is this possible? If it is possible, how can I do it?

Answer 1

You can remove it through template_preprocess_node(). For instance:

function YOURTHEMENAME_preprocess_node(&$variables) {
  unset($variables['content']['links']['statistics']);
}

Or you may be able to do this with simple CSS as well:

li.statistics_counter {
  display: none;
}

Answer 2

Also, the view count on nodes is permission based, so you can deny the view permission to everyone and then it will only show for UID 1.