Adding Signatures to Discourse

[george_in_PA]

In the past I’ve published several automotive forums and am looking into use of Discourse to launch a new automotive forum. Using VBulletin previously, we were able to include signatures (sometimes with active links), title lines that were sometimes serious… say for administrators and moderators or commercial/advertiser/company representatives, or humorous for longtime users. I don’t see that sort of customization on my Profile here and was wondering if this can be added. Other functionality such as some photo uploading of personal cars that helps them nest a bit and create their own profile/space might also be cool, but am not aware of any of this sort of functionality.

Given the objective I’ve seen for this platform is to be more of a WordPress model, I’m curious if the Discourse team or any plugin programmers have worked on such functionality.

[gdpelican (James Kiesel)]

From what I hear the core team of Discourse is not too keen on signatures… I believe there was some movement around a plugin on that front, but I’m not aware of a working one just yet.

Plugin for signatures?

Our users are clamoring for signatures. It’s the one thing that has become the most consistent issue brought up so far. We cannot just ignore our audience, so I wanted to see what could be done. While I understand the drawback of them, if there were an option that they were off by default, and users had the option to turn them on, I don’t see what the harm could be. I hope that this is taken into consideration.