Sorry, I know it’s here somewhere, I’ve seen it. Now I can’t find it again. Could you please outline the procedure to change the text on ‘reply’ button? Yesterday I researched for an hour to find out why there was no ‘reply’ button showing. Almost changed my whole WP theme LOL.
Come to find out it was labeled ‘quote’. Anyway thank you.
No, the Quote button is a completely different button… It will do a reply, but will also copy the text from the post being quoted…
The reply button, by default in our themes, says New Post…
so, assuming you mean, a reply and not a new topic, look in your spTopicView.php template file… you should see this segment of code:
sp_SectionStart(‘tagClass=spPlainSection’, ‘pageLinks’);
sp_PostNewButton(‘tagId=spPostNewButtonBottom&tagClass=spButton spRight’, __sp(‘New Post’), __sp(‘Make a new post in this topic’), __sp(‘This topic is locked’));
sp_PostNewTopicButton(‘tagId=spPostNewTopicButtonBottom&tagClass=spButton spRight’, __sp(‘New Topic’), __sp(‘Start a new topic’), __sp(‘This forum is locked’));
sp_PostIndexPageLinks(”, __sp(‘Page: ‘), __sp(‘Jump to page %PAGE% of this topic’));
sp_InsertBreak();
sp_SectionEnd(”, ‘pageLinks’);
You can see New Post and New Topic for the two buttons… if you dont see the two buttons, something else is up… so a link may be more helpful…
Mr Papa said
No, the Quote button is a completely different button… It will do a reply, but will also copy the text from the post being quoted…
The reply button, by default in our themes, says New Post…
so, assuming you mean, a reply and not a new topic, look in your spTopicView.php template file… you should see this segment of code:
sp_SectionStart(‘tagClass=spPlainSection’, ‘pageLinks’);
sp_PostNewButton(‘tagId=spPostNewButtonBottom&tagClass=spButton spRight’, __sp(‘New Post’), __sp(‘Make a new post in this topic’), __sp(‘This topic is locked’));
sp_PostNewTopicButton(‘tagId=spPostNewTopicButtonBottom&tagClass=spButton spRight’, __sp(‘New Topic’), __sp(‘Start a new topic’), __sp(‘This forum is locked’));
sp_PostIndexPageLinks(”, __sp(‘Page: ‘), __sp(‘Jump to page %PAGE% of this topic’));
sp_InsertBreak();
sp_SectionEnd(”, ‘pageLinks’);You can see New Post and New Topic for the two buttons… if you dont see the two buttons, something else is up… so a link may be more helpful…
Great, thank you very much, I’ll try it.
I assume you have considered and rejected the idea of renaming the “New Post” button to “Reply”? It confused me for a while as I’m used to the button being called “Reply” on other forum.
Edit: Curiously, I just noticed that the button to send a reply is called “Post New Reply” so the naming seems inconsistent.
we cannot win on this one… some like Reply (count me), others like Add Reply, others like New Post… etc etc etc…
No one name is going to make everyone happy… so being able to set it to your hearts content in the theme gives everyone that option…
We currently have a ticket open to re-evaluate what they all get named by default… but still whatever it ends up wont appeal to all…
I prefer Reply, or Add Reply also. I actually just got a topic from a member asking me how to post a reply to a topic. It was at that moment I realized the Reply button above the topic is labelled “Add Reply” and the button below the topic is “Add Post”, which is confusing to the readers. I’ll be honest and tell you now that I noticed it I was confused myself – even the hover text is different. I had to create two posts to make sure they did the same thing before I answered his question.
#1. Consistency between the two buttons.
#2. Consistency between most other platforms and use reply instead of post.
every user can set them to what they want… NO way to please everyone ere that’s why you can set them locally…
in the default theme, I think we missed one when changing them so if course we will get that fixed…
