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RP Rasmus Max Petersen
Rasmus Max Petersen
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Member since Nov 2012
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Jan 23, 2013 · 12:13 pm · Edited

Hey forum!

I’m playing with custom icons on the forums, and realize that most can be done throug the wp-admin options.

However, i’ve run into a problem. I have 3 registered administrators on my forum, myself included. (administrator not moderators). Trouble is, that when i give a user “administrator” rights, the text “Administrator” is added below their nick when viewing a post.

I don’t want that. I want an image displayed instead (much like the admins on this forum have), and to do that, i’ve created a custom rank, uploaded the image i wanted and added the admins to that rank. So now i have the image displaying, but beneath that, it still says “Administrator” in plain text – how to remove it?

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Member since Nov 2008
16,437 posts
Jan 23, 2013 · 12:23 pm

This will require a small edit to the template display function controlling the display of Special Ranks. The file you beed is the spTopicView.php template in the /templates folder of your SP theme.

The function you need is called sp_PostIndexUserSpecialRank() and by default probably look something like:

sp_PostIndexUserSpecialRank('tagClass=spPostUserSpecialRank spCenter');

You need to add an argument to inhibit the display of the title which, by default, is turned on. You do that like this:

sp_PostIndexUserSpecialRank('tagClass=spPostUserSpecialRank spCenter&showTitle=0');

Note the ampersand!

As always we recommend that you create your own SP theme so that any customisation is not lost during a future update. (http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/themes/theme-basics/creating-a-theme/)

RP Rasmus Max Petersen
Rasmus Max Petersen
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Member since Nov 2012
20 posts
Jan 23, 2013 · 12:59 pm

Exsactly what i was looking for.

And don’t worry, i did read the documentation and created my own theme accordingly :)