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First of all let me thank you for the SP-forum, it is a great work.
I have two questions related to writing posts. In my forum unregistered guests can write posts. If the unregistered guests open the editor, they find, that the the name form field is pre-filled with the word "Unknown". Many guests are satisfied with it and not fill their name. Is it possible to set the name-field empty (without the word „Unknown“) to the guest will be forced to fill this field with his own name?
My second question relates to the first. In previous SPF versions (now I use v5), when quoting a non registered guest's post, the guest's name was shown (eg, "John said"). Now, although the unregistered guest fills his name in his post, when his post is quoted, the name does not appear, but it is described as "Guest said." Can I set somewhere to quoting the filled name („John said“ instead „Guest said“)?
Thank you for your willingness and sorry for my imperfect English
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Your English IS perfect...
On the first issue then that is a mistake and I will get that put right for the next update.
Same with the second although I am not aware of seeing it myself - but I will check and fix if this is the case.
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Hi,
To add to this topic, I would also like to know if it is possible to add custom fields for the guest posting, such as emails, website, etc?
I would like to incorporate this without having them have to register. What is the best way to go about adding this feature?
Thanks
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they are all there by default... guest name and email... required for posting though you could turn those off...
not sure what you would do with website or other... but currently we only get name and email from guests...
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Sorry, email was a bad example, I was hoping to somehow incorporate the custom fields later to verify information from the postings, would it be possible, or will I have to create a plugin or use the API in order to implement this?
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no, sorry, profile data only exists for registered users...
you 'might' be able to create a plugin to do this... not sure I fully understand it... what would keep a guest 2 from entering same info as guest 1?? and where and how would you get this info - and then store? and where would you display it?
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Its a controlled forum so it would be okay as all posts would be moderated. The problem lies with storing the information for the custom fields, and then this would be displayed to the moderator before approving. The main point of implementing this is reducing the time taken to register as a user. Before I dive into this blindly, I was hoping to get some information on the level of difficulty implementing this into the forum, and I am getting the sense that it's a complicated issue.
Edit: So talking and thinking about it, just made me realize there would be another way to go about this, and have the guests register at the same time as posting, in essence using the registration fields + custom profile fields if possible. Is this a more feasible solution?
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it is feasible... and easier... but would still need to be implemented as a plugin since we dont have that functionality in core...
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Thanks, I am going to try to use the wordpress hooks to add the custom fields, I will let you know how it works out.
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please do... if you make it into a real plugin, we can offer it for other users...
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