Hide admin markers from Joomla’s public titles

The Strip Comments system plugin removes markers such as {-- My City --} from rendered front-end output, while leaving them in administrator-visible names.

This problem arises when a site has several similarly named modules, articles or menu items and editors need a quick way to tell them apart. Joomla core provides fields and naming conventions for managing those records, but it does not provide a general, administrator-only annotation syntax that can be placed in titles and then removed across the front end. A template override could hide or alter output in particular layouts, but that means handling each relevant rendering path. A system plugin is the extension-based alternative: according to the listing, Strip Comments processes the rendered output across places including module titles, article titles and menu items. That is its specific step beyond core, not a new content-management feature.

It is aimed at administrators and editorial teams managing complex sites with repeated labels or multiple localised, client-specific or otherwise similar records. A small site with distinctive titles, or a team that has no need for private naming notes, has little reason to install it.

The listing marks it as a free download from ferino, in the “extensions specific non sorted” directory section, and says it supports Joomla 5 and 6. The directory shows one other extension from the developer, while the listing provides no broader track-record evidence; it also says support is not available and shows no reviews. Before installing, check how the marker syntax behaves with escaped text, caching, third-party extensions and titles produced outside the named examples. The listing does not explain configuration options, processing limits, performance implications, update policy or whether all front-end output contexts are covered. This note is based on the listing; we have not tested the plugin.

Listed on the Joomla Extensions Directory.