Custom Formatting Returns

Long time members will recall that, before the board upgrades earlier this year, we had a custom title feature and several automatic post formatting options. Those were lost in the upgrade, but now they're back.

These features are available to members that have been registered for a certain amount of time and have made a certain amount of posts. The requirements to use each feature are:

• Font Color - 30 days, 100 posts
• Font Size - 60 days, 300 posts
• Custom Title - 90 days, 500 posts
• Font Face - 120 days, 700 posts

So, when you meet both requires for a feature, you can begin using it. They are found in the Member Control Panel. Custom Title is under Profile > Edit profile and the font settings are under Board preferences > Edit posting defaults.

There is also an option to turn on/off the display of these custom font settings on your view of everyone's posts. This setting is under Board preferences > Edit display options. It's available to everyone with no special requirements.

Awesome, Thoul. I was waiting for these features to return.

Maybe I'm slow but I can't seem to change my font color, even though I'm following your very clear instructions. I open the Font Color box and click on the color I want but it doesn't fill in anything in the box. Am I doing something wrong?

Good question, Darkil. I should have covered this above. Clear your browser's cache and reload the page. The font color box uses javascript that I had to update for this. Your browser probably has the old version of that cached and is using it instead.

You can also just type in a color name. Like if you put in "blue" that will give you blue text.

Caged Wolf wrote:

Awesome, Thoul. I was waiting for these features to return.

Glad you like them. This update largely spun out of your signature uploading request, really. When looking around for something to do that, I found a custom title add-on that I was able to easily expand to fill the role of the formatting options also.

Thanks Thoul! Because I'm at work I can't delete the browser cache so I just used your suggestion and typed in the color. This is a great feature and I'm glad you brought it back!

oooo I don't qualify yet but awesome

Awesome Thoul. Just plain awesome. Glad you brought these features back.

Just for future reference, I've added entries to the Boards FAQ regarding the custom title and formatting options and their requirements.