Coloring usernames

[AxPxI]

This is a simple request, but I would like to request a code for coloring usernames to the forum. The last code belonged in the footer. I would appreciate this very much if this request can be fulfilled. Thank you.

[blueshead]

There is a plug in for that.

[Smangii]

If you don't want to use a plugin, you can use CSS for this This can either go in your stylesheet or headers/footers, if you add <style> </style> tags around it:

.user-link.user-1 { color: #FF0 !important; }

The issue is that you have to change the 1 to the number of the user, which you can find if you click on their profile and see the URL, it should be the number in: yourforum.proboards.com/user/1

[blueshead]

Jan 3, 2014 6:57:45 GMT -8 Smangii said:

If you don't want to use a plugin, you can use CSS for this This can either go in your stylesheet or headers/footers, if you add <style> </style> tags around it:

.user-link.user-1 { color: #FF0 !important; }

The issue is that you have to change the 1 to the number of the user, which you can find if you click on their profile and see the URL, it should be the number in: yourforum.proboards.com/user/1

Either way.. Your CSS or the plug in..The board admin will still have to assign the color for the members name. As a n00b to CSS.I like the plug in because it's easy to use and you can learn some simple CSS to use with it to give them a background color and different borders..

What would be nice is a plug in that would give the members themselves the power to change their name colors,etc..

[Smangii]

Jan 3, 2014 8:12:32 GMT -8 blueshead said:

Jan 3, 2014 6:57:45 GMT -8 Smangii said:

If you don't want to use a plugin, you can use CSS for this This can either go in your stylesheet or headers/footers, if you add <style> </style> tags around it:

.user-link.user-1 { color: #FF0 !important; }

The issue is that you have to change the 1 to the number of the user, which you can find if you click on their profile and see the URL, it should be the number in: yourforum.proboards.com/user/1

Either way.. Your CSS or the plug in..The board admin will still have to assign the color for the members name. As a n00b to CSS.I like the plug in because it's easy to use and you can learn some simple CSS to use with it to give them a background color and different borders..

What would be nice is a plug in that would give the members themselves the power to change their name colors,etc..

This is true, plugins are very helpful to newbies. But, you can only have a certain number of plugins (I think its 40?) Which is plenty, but can make the forum run slower and sometimes its a good advantage to learn/use CSS in replacement of a plugin so that you can save up the extra room.

I believe there is a future addition in the works for Peter's Monetary plugin, which allows a "shop" to be enabled. Not sure if colored names will be part of it, but I remember something like this existing in V4 so I don't see why not!

[blueshead]

But Smangii..I don't want to learn CSS..I simply want my members to be able to change the color of their name..

[Smangii]

Jan 3, 2014 10:03:41 GMT -8 blueshead said:

But Smangii..I don't want to learn CSS..I simply want my members to be able to change the color of their name..

You learning CSS won't allow members to change their own names... I didn't say that it did :S

I said a plugin was in the works for that feature you wanted. My point was to use CSS over plugins if you can, since plugins tend to run things slower and you are only allowed 40 for free.

[Former Member]

Couldn't they change their own name, Smangii, if we had the make a custom profile field for the hex code color, then used if statements around the display name variable to change the hex code color based on what the user inputs? Although that might not override the default coloring without setting <style> and specifically making a new .class a {stuff with !important} in it and I'm not sure you can use custom profile fields inside of a <style> like that...

[Smangii]

Jan 3, 2014 13:24:50 GMT -8 ₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪ said:

Couldn't they change their own name, Smangii, if we had the make a custom profile field for the hex code color, then used if statements around the display name variable to change the hex code color based on what the user inputs? Although that might not override the default coloring without setting <style> and specifically making a new .class a {stuff with !important} in it and I'm not sure you can use custom profile fields inside of a <style> like that...

I got it work inside of the mini-profile (so they can change their own name WITHIN the miniprofile) but not outside, the CSS in the mini-profile layout template doesn't affect the global CSS, and that's the only spot where that variable is accessible.

[Former Member]

Which variable? Custom profile fields are accessible elsewhere, though right now it's a bit glitchy (talked about here)

[blueshead]

Have at it...You two..Throw the CSS at each other! lolz..But let us little shmoos know when there is a way to let our members color there own names..

[Smangii]

Jan 3, 2014 14:00:18 GMT -8 ₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪ said:

Which variable? Custom profile fields are accessible elsewhere, though right now it's a bit glitchy (talked about here)

Interesting... I didn't know you can access them multiple places (that's what I get for not ever looking at the sidebar Loops and Variables T_T) the forum wrapper would be good enough, wouldn't it? That's if you can use variables in <style> tags as you said before... *runs off to try*

[AxPxI]

Jan 3, 2014 6:57:45 GMT -8 Smangii said:

If you don't want to use a plugin, you can use CSS for this This can either go in your stylesheet or headers/footers, if you add <style> </style> tags around it:

.user-link.user-1 { color: #FF0 !important; }

The issue is that you have to change the 1 to the number of the user, which you can find if you click on their profile and see the URL, it should be the number in: yourforum.proboards.com/user/1[/quote]


Thank you! I just tried it out on my forum. It worked!

[blueshead]

O.K..It seems that the admin still has to do the work.. Has anyone figured out how to let members choose their own colored name?

[Smangii]

Jan 3, 2014 14:00:18 GMT -8 ₪» ⅀ ƪ Ƒ «₪ said:

Which variable? Custom profile fields are accessible elsewhere, though right now it's a bit glitchy (talked about here)

Yes, but not in the forum wrapper... only place I think that covers all areas where the name color could be changed using a custom field.

Jan 8, 2014 14:20:58 GMT -8 blueshead said:

O.K..It seems that the admin still has to do the work.. Has anyone figured out how to let members choose their own colored name?

They can choose their own color within the mini-profile, but not a global color. Eventually this could be a plugin, but not possible with a layout template, from what I've tried.