Shouldn’t be too difficult. That looks like Reboot theme – is that right? And are you using a child theme so it is safer to make changes?

Yellow Swordfish said
Shouldn’t be too difficult. That looks like Reboot theme – is that right? And are you using a child theme so it is safer to make changes?  

Well the pic is from my ip.board forum but yes my new forum at http://vikefans.com/forums/ is using a child reboot theme. 

So – first task is to copy the template /templates/desktop/spForumViewDesktop./php from the Reboot theme folder into your child theme in the same location.

Now you need to make an edit to that template in your child theme. Look for the comment – 

# Column 3 of the forum row

at line (about) 198. Nite this is the second time this comment is made. The first is to do with subforums.

In the correct block of code, aftyer the column start you will find the function 

sp_TopicIndexReplyCount()

Track down 2 or 3 lines until you find the first call to sp_InsertBreak(). Immediately AFTER that line of code add the following new line:

sp_UserAvatar('tagClass=spLeft&size=25&context=user', $spThisTopic->last_user_id);

This needs to be entered EXACTLY as is shown here. But you can adjust the size (set to 25 pixels here) to whatever you prefer and what fits best.

You may want to do something with the mobile template as well. But of course, the layout is different.

Actually- you can probably improve that by making the size 35 and changing the next function:

sp_TopicIndexLastPost()

At the end of the argument list for that function you will find the argument…

&itemBreak= - -

If you change that to:

&itemBreak=<br />

It might give you a better display. Have a play.

Thanks so much Yellowfish! I will try and make these mods today and see how it goes. Will update on my progress!

This worked great!!!! Thanks so much for your help. 

np. glad we could help!