Customize Signup Form (add an intro sentence)

I’m looking for the way to add say a short intro sentence to appear above our community’s signup form. I’ve managed to change the header and even swap the emoji from the standard hand wave I have seen in searching here reference to customizing my theme component,

We are not overly diligent in screening signups as it is a forum for open educators around the world, but we get an increasingly number of accounts created where they do not fill in the required fields with credible stuff (like city, country, their motivation to join the community). I have been deleting requests from what looks like just an effort to get accounts somewhere (I have only seen one spam effort so far, surprising).

I just want to add a sentence up top to indicate that completing the form will best enable us to approve their accounts (as well as just being good community members).

Thanks for any help.

And PS, the AI generated alt text here is a gem. I am the only person from our 1800 member4 community that enters alt text for images,

You can make those fields required.

You can also turn on the developer toolbar and find that there’s a plugin outlet create-account-header-bottom.

oh! And Custom Components -- add button or text at any plugin outlet will allow you to make a bit of text that gets inserted there.

You’d need to do a bit more work than I did to make the HTML and/or CSS such that it would put the text exactly where you want it, but this is a good start.

That signup for is different from the invite forum and yet quite similar but it seems that the invite form doesn’t have the same outlets or am I missing something?

If you’ll send me an invite link I can check?

Slightly censored :slight_smile:

Effectively there are no specific invite outlets.

Looks like you can still use after-user-name or after-user-info

But if none of those suits you, it’s (usually) not that hard to get another plugin outlet added to core.

If you need it to be only on the invite page, you could hide it from the other page with CSS.

after-user-name is slightly janky, if I were to use top-notices how would I restrict my modification to only the invite page? Or are you suggesting I just override it and then hide it from everything else?

Something like that.

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Perfect! And I’ve been using Discourse since like 2020 and I did not even know of this magical developer bar. BAM! New powers

I have them as required but what happens is people dumps random stuff in there that is usually not even close to what we ask for. That at least identifies the spammers!

It’s more that you don’t read every announcement in meta.it’s brand new!

Introducing Discourse developer toolbar

The balance between thwarting spammers and annoying your actual users is quite complex!

Let me know if you end up using my theme component. If you’re a developer then you might just use it as an example

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