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How do I prevent links in signatures?
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canuckjgc
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Apr 29, 2015 - 11:08 am

How do I prevent users from putting links in signatures?  Ideally I would like to allow links in signatures after a certain number of posts, but preventing them is the main thing.

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Yellow Swordfish
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Apr 29, 2015 - 12:14 pm

I am sorry to say that at this point in time you can't. I am pretty sure we have this - and some issues around signatures - on a list to look at in the future bit currently the only thing you could do there is deny permission to set them up until user gets to a certain post count and switches to a different user group whose permission allows them.

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canuckjgc
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Apr 29, 2015 - 12:49 pm

Ok thanks for this.  That would be a great addition to prevent postings purely for spamming purposes.

Is there an easy way to make all those links nofollow then?

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Yellow Swordfish
Glinton, England
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Apr 29, 2015 - 1:36 pm

you can make all links in posts nofollow (see the options > content settings). You can also use the captcha plugin and/or the admin bar plugin which optionally can parse all posts through Akismet and - of course - you can also use the moderation options in permissions.

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Mr Papa
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Apr 29, 2015 - 9:29 pm

actually, this can be done... just not via option or setting... so depends on how much you want it...

in your sp theme spFunctions.php file something like this should work:

apply_filters('sph_PostIndexUserSignature', 'my_strip_sig_links');
function my_strip_sig_links($out) {
    $out = preg_replace('/<a href=\"(.*?)\">(.*?)<\/a>/', "\\2", $out);
    return $out;
}

as always, we recommend you make a child theme or custom theme before making any changes...

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