I'd like for the full "New reply" to appear at the bottom of a thread instead of the "Quick reply" version, directly editable of course.
Actually, I assume real estate is the main reason why this isn't already so but a few layout changes in the "New/full reply" feature would make it take up a lot less real estate, for instance by;
- relocating things from below the text box to the right of it
- or putting specialty features (polls, attachments, etc) so it is reached with a regular expand/collapse button (i.e the type of small button seen on the top right corner of e.g the Quick Reply box)
How can I make the regular reply box show instead of Quick Reply?
Or am I missing something?
Thank you!
Thanks for your (very) fast and kind reply.
The mod seems promising. Assuming it works well for 1.4 (do you know? A few bugs are mentioned plus it's two years old...), I'm hoping it'd be easy to include just a few more parts from the "New reply":
Post options - only the Signature part
Thread subscription options
Attachments - desired, but no need for it to be in a separate section like that. And the "you're using X KB" is redundant for me since it is set for "Unlimited".
The three post buttons
I realized Polls don't appear for replies, so my question is thus;
What can I do to include the above? Either into that plugin or how do I add it to "under" where the plugin displays its results?
Thank you again!
Of dubious interest; here are my explanations why the other features are obsolte, for me. Feel free to disregard, of course:
Username - i don't see a need for this as a default. My users typically only have one user name. (Side note, it is not clear that "change user" logs you out.)
Post Subject - (note: in e.g google groups, changing the topic title actually changes the name for the whole thread. Not sure which makes more sense)
Post Icons - turned off for me
Post options: Disable Smilies - not sure it works; my tests to check it did neither hide my own nor quoted smilies, and if I don't understand it my fellow boards members will likely also not do so, i.e an obsolete feature for me
The only issue with that plugin that I know of is that it sometimes stretches the page and makes the editor a bit squashed.
If you need all that stuff though you'll need an additional plugin, it's not loaded by default on the showthread page.
The change username thing is odd and a lot of staff have even said they don't really know what it's there for. It'll be removed at some point. I believe the post subject is also being removed as it's a fairly redundant feature. You can remove these options from the templates if you don't want them.
Disable smilies option does work though --> :) :( :D :P
Thank you again!
Because I'm new at this I must ask; When you say I need an additional plugin, does this mean it is not a good idea to tamper with the various templates? Or is it simply not possible to do what I described by fiddling with the templates? Or how do I create such a plugin?
You're right, the Disable smilies does work. My mistake. Thank you.