Thank you – glad you are liking it…

Can you perhaps put a bit more flesh on what you are asking for as I am not totally following the where and what you want…

Something like this when a member make a post and it shows up on the forum index.

you can already do this…  your sp theme displays the elements… you just need to add a template tag to display the avatar…

something like:

sp_UserAvatar('tagClass=spPostUserAvatar spCenter&context=user&size=50', $spThisTopic->last_user_id);

In the default theme, you would add it to this stuff

                                sp_ColumnStart('tagClass=spColumnSection spRight&width=14%&height=50px');
                                    sp_TopicIndexPostCount('tagClass=spInRowCount', __sp('Posts'), __sp('Post'));
                                    sp_TopicIndexViewCount('tagClass=spInRowCount', __sp('Views'), __sp('View'));
                                    sp_TopicIndexStatusIcons('tagClass=spStatusIcon spCenter', __sp('This topic is locked'), __sp('This topic is pinned'), __sp('This topic has unread posts'), __sp('No permission to create posts'));
                                    if (function_exists('sp_TopicIndexRating')) sp_TopicIndexRating('tagClass=spTopicRating spCenter');
                                sp_ColumnEnd();

style as desired… change size if you want…

as always, we strongly urge you to create a child theme or make your own theme before editing to keep from losing changes on updates…

@mr-papa 

Thank you very much! I will give it a whirl!

let us know how it goes…

Okay i took some screenshots and did an image edit to place the user’s avatar on where i am trying to style it into the template.

Mr Papa said
you can already do this…  your sp theme displays the elements… you just need to add a template tag to display the avatar…

something like:

<br />

sp_UserAvatar('tagClass=spPostUserAvatar spCenter&context=user&size=50', $spThisTopic->last_user_id);

<br />

In the default theme, you would add it to this stuff

<br />

                                sp_ColumnStart('tagClass=spColumnSection spRight&width=14%&height=50px');
                                    sp_TopicIndexPostCount('tagClass=spInRowCount', __sp('Posts'), __sp('Post'));
                                    sp_TopicIndexViewCount('tagClass=spInRowCount', __sp('Views'), __sp('View'));
                                    sp_TopicIndexStatusIcons('tagClass=spStatusIcon spCenter', __sp('This topic is locked'), __sp('This topic is pinned'), __sp('This topic has unread posts'), __sp('No permission to create posts'));
                                    if (function_exists('sp_TopicIndexRating')) sp_TopicIndexRating('tagClass=spTopicRating spCenter');
                                sp_ColumnEnd();

<br />

style as desired… change size if you want…

as always, we strongly urge you to create a child theme or make your own theme before editing to keep from losing changes on updates…

By using the code you gave me above this is what i got in picture below.

This is where the avatar shows on the forum in picture below….

So anyways I am still trying to place the user’s avatar on the first example picture i did by using picture editing software. I will try placing the code again in other templates to see what happens. thanks for your help @mr-papa 

For your first mock-up you will need to add the code to the spGroupView.php template. Get it in there roughly as you want and then we can hone it with a bit of ptoper styling when we see it. Does that make sense?

Look for the call to sp_ForumIndexLastPost() which is the column you will want it in. 

Also – i would change that spCenter in the avatar call to spLeft.

Yellow Swordfish said
For your first mock-up you will need to add the code to the spGroupView.php template. Get it in there roughly as you want and then we can hone it with a bit of ptoper styling when we see it. Does that make sense?

Look for the call to sp_ForumIndexLastPost() which is the column you will want it in. 

Yes sir thank you! I will start now and then take another screenshot.

Okay here are some examples again:

spGroupView.php template.edit picture

Then this is where the code styles at but now its a guest avatar?

Sorry – forgot about that!

Instead of:

$spThisTopic->last_user_id

you will need:

$spThisForum-<user_id

We can also stop it appearing when there are no topics and help with the styling. I need to go out for half an hour but will come back on those issues as soon as I can.

Okay take your time no rush. I also will need a custom forum design created to match my main wordpress site. So i will give some examples for that. Thanks for your help.

@mr-papa 

@yellow-swordfish 

Okay here is what I did so far, and im happy on the outcome! Thanks for your help & time guys!

Template edit in sp.GroupView.php

sp_UserAvatar(‘tagClass=spPostUserAvatar spCenter&context=user&size=25’,
$spThisForum->user_id);

example picture here

Then this is the outcome of the avatar placement:

If you want to avoid showing an avatar on forums with no topics then this should work:

if ( $spThisForum->post_count == true ) {
    sp_UserAvatar( ‘tagClass=spPostUserAvatar spCenter&context=user&size=25′, $spThisForum->user_id );
}

And if you are happy with them centred and the way they look now then great.

I will get Ike to contact you regarding theme customisation later today.