Changing Colour of Username when Rank Changes

[Shawn]

Good morning everyone. I was wondering is there a plug-in for the following or if anyone can help me with a code in order to achieve this change i would appreciate it.

I would like to be able to have the colour of the user name change at the same time as the users Rank Changes once they hit a certain amount of posts. Right now the only way to change the usernames colour is to create a new group and add them manually. Which is extremely time consuming and when i have hundreds and hundreds of members.

Any help would be very much appreciated

thanks

RB

[Former Member]

Hmm I believe a Layout Template could do this.. I know I can say "if the user has -this- many posts, then use -this- code" essentially which would let me change the color of the display name based on post count. The thing I'm unsure of is 1) if I can do this all over the forum or if it'd only work in certain areas, i.e. mini-profile, because I'm not sure if the post count variable is available on every necessary page (such as thread list, board list, etc.) and 2) I'm not positive a basic code can alter the color of the display name or if it requires a div class with an important! added to it. I'll see if anyone chimes in to answer my questions or to offer another alternative, such as an actual plugin. =)

[Brian]

^ Seconding that.

I don't believe the post count of each individual user present on the page is anywhere in the page's source, so a plugin would likely be out of the question.

[Shawn]

Ok so is the answer no to a plug-in and also no to a CSS modification?

thanks in advance

RD

[Peter]

Not sure why this is labelled as "Not Currently Possible", because it is possible with a plugin using a key.

[Wormopolis]

Good point.. I just didnt think anyone would go down the route of using a super key to store just the posting rank...

[Wormopolis]

on that note, the "new rank salute" plugin already stores currrank as part of a comparison when new posting ranks are achieved. I could probably write in an option to force a specific color on that displayname.

[blc]

Mar 17, 2014 12:30:53 GMT -8 Wormopolis said:

on that note, the "new rank salute" plugin already stores currrank as part of a comparison when new posting ranks are achieved. I could probably write in an option to force a specific color on that displayname.

I like that idea.

I'm still hoping, down the road that we can add additional information for each new rank.

[Wormopolis]

I just submitted v1.1.0 to the library for anyone who wants to try it.


blc post the ideas you have in that support thread so I dont clog this one with anymore side mentions