How to Hide the "Start a Post" Box on LinkedIn

At the top of your LinkedIn feed, before any content, sits an empty text box asking you to perform: "Start a post". Buttons for video, photo, articles. It's the first thing you see, every visit, whether you came to post or not.

Most visits, you didn't come to post. You came to read. But the composer sits there anyway, a little prompt that says the feed is a stage and you're due on it.

If you create LinkedIn content on a schedule, you don't need the box — you post deliberately, not because a text field suggested it. And if you don't create content, the box is pure noise. Either way it can go.

Is there a LinkedIn setting for this?

No. The composer is not optional, not collapsible, not movable. Like the sidebars and the messaging popup, it exists because it generates engagement — impulse posts are still posts — and LinkedIn doesn't add settings that reduce engagement.

The DIY caveat (you know it by now)

Yes, you can hide the composer with a custom style rule. And yes, the same trap applies as with every LinkedIn element: LinkedIn serves several front-end versions at once — React and legacy, plus rolling A/B tests — and the composer's markup differs between them. Your rule works on the version you wrote it for, until LinkedIn hands you a different one and the box quietly returns.

For one element, maybe you don't mind re-fixing it occasionally. But the composer is rarely the only thing people want gone — and maintaining a growing pile of fragile rules against a moving target is exactly the chore an extension should do for you.

The one-toggle version

In LinkFeed Pro, hiding the "Start a post" box is a free feature. The extension detects which LinkedIn front-end your browser is rendering and applies the matching pattern, so the composer stays hidden across LinkedIn's updates:

1. Install LinkFeed Pro (Chrome, Edge or Firefox)
2. Open LinkedIn
3. Enable "Hide 'Start a post'"

Your feed now starts with the feed. Novel concept.

Can you still post?

Of course. The composer box on the homepage is just one entry point — you can still post from your profile, from the mobile app, or by re-enabling the toggle for ten seconds. Hiding the box doesn't limit your account; it removes a daily nudge you didn't ask for.

Deliberate posting instead of prompted posting. Your content calendar will survive.

Complete the cleanup

The composer is the smallest of LinkedIn's distractions. The big wins are hiding the sidebars and the messaging popup — both free — then auto-expanding posts and widening the feed if you read a lot. The full walkthrough is in our distraction-free LinkedIn guide.

FAQ

Does hiding the box affect my ability to comment or react? No. Comments, reactions, shares — everything works normally. Only the post composer at the top of the feed is hidden.

Does it hide the composer everywhere? It targets the box at the top of your home feed — the one you see on every visit.

Is this really free? Yes. No account, no trial, no card. Free features are free forever.