Hi,

I believe it would be quite helpful if the Original Poster (author) of a thread could have some identifier that they are the OP in their subsequent replies in their own thread.

For example, I'm the author/creator of this thread. If I make replies in this thread, there should be something (text or icon or color change) that identifies that I'm the Original Poster.

In a thread that has many posts and spans many pages, it's an inconvenience trying to figure out who the author is among all the replies (i.e. which replies are from the author).

Many forums have this feature and I think WHT does not. Please correct me if I've been missing something all these years...

Thanks for the consideration :)

Cool idea - I like it.

Sirius

Hi,

I believe it would be quite helpful if the Original Poster (author) of a thread could have some identifier that they are the OP in their subsequent replies in their own thread.

For example, I'm the author/creator of this thread. If I make replies in this thread, there should be something (text or icon or color change) that identifies that I'm the Original Poster.

In a thread that has many posts and spans many pages, it's an inconvenience trying to figure out who the author is among all the replies (i.e. which replies are from the author).

Many forums have this feature and I think WHT does not. Please correct me if I've been missing something all these years...

Thanks for the consideration :)

I support!

Some other sites I visit have this feature and it is very helpful :)

sounds indeed as a good idea.

Many forums have this feature
Got an example?

Sounds like it would be something useful, I support the idea and would like to see it added :beer:

Got an example?

Sure, here's a forum I visit frequently:

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2025226 (I just picked a random thread)

After the original post, scroll down and look at the 3rd reply in the thread. You'll see the author is is labeled as "Original Poster"

me likes this idea :)

I rather like it too. I think I've seen it in action at Namepros where posts by the OP bear a "Thread starter" label.

Nice feature... it would be great to add it here too.

I've actually done this on a forum that I admin. .

If you wish to implement it, here's a fairly simple way..

Open up the postbit template, find:


<if condition="$post['usertitle']"><div class="smallfont">$post[usertitle]</div></if>


Add below:


<if condition="$thread[postusername] == $post[username]"><div class="smallfont"><acronym style="font-weight: bold;" title="Original Poster (thread creator)">OP</acronym></div></if>


Can of course be modified to your liking ;).

Sure, here's a forum I visit frequently:

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2025226 (I just picked a random thread)

After the original post, scroll down and look at the 3rd reply in the thread. You'll see the author is is labeled as "Original Poster"

I would LOVE to have this feature implemented on WHT.

It is incredibly useful on active forums such as SlickDeals.net and would be a very welcome addition to WHT.