Mark OP's Posts?

[90gtvert]

Is there a way to mark the OP's posts in a thread? Maybe an image in their posts or in their mini-profile only in a thread that they created. My forum does a lot of tech help and troubleshooting and that would be useful. I've tried searching the support forum and plugins without luck. All I can find is a plugin to make threads that only the OP and staff can reply to, but that's not useful because all members need to be allowed to help by posting.

[Brian]

Hi, 90gtvert.

This should be possible with a template modification and a bit of CSS.

In Themes > Layout Templates > Thread > Post List find this line (usually line 2):

<tr id="$[post.content_id]" class="$[post.content_class]{if $[post.even]} even{/if}{if $[viewing_recent_posts]} recent{/if}">

And change it to this:

<tr id="$[post.content_id]" class="$[post.content_class]{if $[post.even]} even{/if}{if $[viewing_recent_posts]} recent{/if}{if !$[viewing_recent_posts] && $[post.created_by.id] == $[post.thread.created_by.id]} by-op{/if}">

This makes it so that when you view a thread a new class (.by-op) is added to any posts by the author. Now if you add any HTML to the mini-profile you can choose to hide or show it based on the presence of this class. For example, if you add this to the mini-profile:

<div class="author">OP</div>

You can add this to the style sheet to make it hide or show depending on whether or not the user is the OP.

.posts .post .author { display: none; }
.posts .post.by-op .author { display: block; }

There are a number of other things that you can do based on the presence of this class such as change the colors of the post itself or other styling options but this is basically how to make the example you gave work.

[90gtvert]

Thanks very much for the reply/info.

[90gtvert]

The code works great. Thanks again. The only issue I see is that PMs all have crowns, but I suppose that's because of the way PMs are handled. It doesn't bother me anyway.

[Brian]

You can add this to the style sheet to hide them there.

.messages .item .author { display: none; }

[90gtvert]

Thanks again!