How to hide recent in the navigation

Question

In SP2013 you have the recent entry in the navigation. Is there an easy way to automatically hide/remove this entry?

Answer 1

You can manually delete the header from:

Site Settings-> Look and Feel -> Navigation

Answer 2

Did some additional research and found the answer myself.

var title = SPUtility.GetLocalizedString("$Resources:core,category_Recent", null, web.Language);
SPNavigationNodeCollection nodes = web.Navigation.QuickLaunch;
foreach (SPNavigationNode node in nodes)
{
  if (node.Title.Equals(title))
  {
    node.Delete();
    break;
  }
}