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Since this is a heavily modified theme the solution would be to modify the HTML the NPC Profiles plugin uses by going into the Profile HTML tab of the plugin's settings.

However, the actual HTML changes required are going to be completely dependent on how that particular theme works. For example, given that the avatar isn't showing in the NPC mini-profile it can be assumed that there's CSS rules in the theme that are either hiding the default avatar class outright or at least change its display properties in such a manner that it's no longer visible outside of the theme's specific use case.

This will ultimately require at least a little bit of coding ability to fix. For the most part a lot of what you need can be obtained directly from the theme itself in Themes > Layout Templates, but the plugin isn't a theme so it's unfortunately not a simple copy and paste as a good amount of the code in there is theme-specific and won't work inside the plugin. But it should be completely possible for someone with experience to be able to take both the User Profile and Mini-Profile layout templates from that theme and rip out just the necessary HTML to get everything to display.

This would require the plugin to store even more data separately via a plugin key, and the most applicable type of plugin key for it to use to record those numbers would be a forum super key as the post/like data would need to be available forum-wide.

Forums allow you to use up to 2 super keys by default, so if a plugin I create ends up having to use any plugin keys at all I usually refrain from using super keys unless the plugin's functionality absolutely requires it.

In the case of this plugin I use a post key to save the data as the plugin just needs to know which NPC username to assign to the post. A post key is a normal type of plugin key which the forum allows you to use 10 of by default. This is the most minimalistic approach possible in order to use the minimum amount of plugin keys required to get everything working.

To answer the question, while it is technically possible there's no optimal way to do it that's going to outweigh the negatives of adding the functionality. It would require an additional plugin key and if you're already using the plugin it would have no way to automatically obtain the existing post and like counts retroactively as no feature exists on the service that can query this data for the plugin. I would've added this functionality when I first made the plugin about 10 years ago, but because of these limitations I went with the approach we have now where the NPC is purely a cosmetic change on top of an existing post and not a separate entity.

Eh, you don't want any of them old crusty things. I don't think I even have them anymore.

Hit me up and I'll send you stuff from the modern era.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean collapsing the entire left or right sidebar in one click instead of each individual container?

If so, that would be possible but you would need to modify the source code of the plugin to achieve it.

Hi, Dan!

It should definitely be possible to remove that from the bottom of the page as it looks to be added by something installed after the forum's creation. I see you've ruled out a bunch of the usual suspects, so that's good! There's a couple more potential areas it could be, so let's go over them real quick:

1. If you have multiple themes installed on the forum you'll want to make sure that when you go to Themes > Layout Templates > Forum Wrapper the affected theme is the one selected in the Current Theme dropdown near the top. Since it appears on all pages the Forum Wrapper template is the only possible template it would be in, but each theme has its own Forum Wrapper template so if you're on the wrong one that would be why it doesn't appear.

2. If it's being added by a plugin you may need to go to Plugins > Manage in your admin area and toggle plugins one at a time to see which one is responsible for adding it. This is the next most likely area other than the Forum Wrapper template as not all plugins allow you to edit their source code and see the exact HTML they add to the page.

Other than those two areas the last remaining bastion of code that shows up on every page on the forum would be Structure > Headers & Footers > Global Header & Footer but you've already gone over that area so you should be good there.

Super user keys are used to store plugin data for a specific user that should be visible to all users. This is how I save the message a user enters using the plugin.

If I used a regular user key the only user who would be able to see the message added by this plugin is the user themselves. Since the purpose of the plugin is for others to see the message I have to user a super user key.

Honestly, I would just use a separate plugin to accomplish this since most other plugins that add a container to the page are going to show in that area.

It's going to be a lot harder to reconfigure the sidebar plugin to show things in places it doesn't normally show them than it would be to use it as is in conjunction with another plugin that already adds containers where you want.