- I would like to be able to choose to have certain custom profile fields displayed next to their name on the left, like their join date is.

- Subforums.

- Option to keep Fast Reply always open, It’s all I really use and the great part of using it in IPB is you don’t have to click anything accept POST!

- Numbered lists, bulleted lists, and strike through text.  I used these a lot in our old forums to show members what features we were working on and what was completed.

- Spoiler tags, a lot of sites use these to hide things that may spoil a movie/game for a person and are useful for other things as well.

ShadowXOR - 24 January 2008 04:20 PM

- Option to keep Fast Reply always open, It’s all I really use and the great part of using it in IPB is you don’t have to click anything accept POST!

- Numbered lists, bulleted lists, and strike through text.  I used these a lot in our old forums to show members what features we were working on and what was completed.

- Spoiler tags, a lot of sites use these to hide things that may spoil a movie/game for a person and are useful for other things as well.

These three are already possible.

1) In your theme file, simply get rid of the Fast Reply button and change this:

to this:

2) You can use any formatting plugin you like on your forums, including Markdown, Textile, or something custom that gives easy access to bulleted lists.  Strike is part of default typography with [strike][/strike] pMcode. example

3) Again, a formatting plugin could handle this.  This is really specific need, though, so you aren’t likely to find it in an existing formatting plugin.  It would be simple matter to write, though, and perhaps someone from the community would even be able to help you with that in the Plugin assistance forums.

I’m assuming that I would need to make the Fast Reply changes individually, to every forum skin separately, correct?  I’m not sure how the Markdown & Textile plugins would work, are those on a per-skin basis, or once they’re installed they’re applied everywhere?  If I want to get rid of some of the forum skins I don’t like (so that I don’t have to bother modifying them) how would I get rid of one and all references to it?

As for the spoiler tags, I believe one of my friends will probably be able to take care of it.  Thanks for the help.

You don’t have to use all of the included themes, correct.  To remove the ones you don’t like, just delete them from /themes/forum_themes/.

Text formatting preferences are set at a forum level, and aren’t affected by your themes.  Install the plugins that you wish to use, and they will be available in the “Text Formatting in Posts” dropdown (click Edit for a forum, and then Show Preferences).  You can also set this in your default preferences so that new forums created will have that selected by default, but for existing forums, you will need to edit each ones’ preferences, as they are discrete.

Derek Jones - 24 January 2008 04:55 PM

1) In your theme file, simply get rid of the Fast Reply button and change this:

<div id="fastreply" style="display: none; padding:0;">

to this:

<div id="fastreply">

OK, I’m finally getting around to this.  Where exactly do I change it?  Do I modify the code via FTP, via a template, or something else?  To a noob like me my theme file is kind of vague!

No problem, first follow these instructions.  You can either edit the files directly, or in the Forum control panel template editor if you setup the permissions as described in that document.  theme_submission.php is the file you are after (Threads Themes) and the Threads template you will find:

Those are the buttons, and below that you will see:

That sets the form to not be displayed when the page is loaded.

None of that exists in my theme_submission.php.  I search by “if can_post” and the only thing that came up was one “if can_post_poll”.

EDIT: It’s actually under theme_threads.php.  I found it and took care of all my skins, thanks!

One more question though, what do I need to edit to fix this problem…I know it’s dumb but:

http://vps.kg13.com/~shadow/images/blueskin.jpg

I think those numbers on the Blue skin are way too close together, what would I need to do to just insert a space or something between each one?  I think people could easily click the wrong one.

Yes, sorry about that, I had the right template, looking at the wrong file name.  Long week!

I think those numbers on the Blue skin are way too close together, what would I need to do to just insert a space or something between each one?  I think people could easily click the wrong one.

This would probably be best accomplished with a CSS change.  If you need assistance with that, I’d recommend posting in the HTML, CSS, and Design forum.

Did your friend ever help out with the spoiler tag plugin? Some of my members requested this feature every couple of months when my forums used to be phpBB and it was easier to fix. Now using the EEforums it seems to be a biggie again.

+1 for Subforums!