Discourse Signatures

[Discourse]

	Summary	Discourse Signatures adds old school forum signatures to Discourse.
	Repository Link	https://github.com/discourse/discourse-signatures
	Install Guide	How to install plugins in Discourse

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We all know forum signatures are a relic of the past, but there are still a lot of communities that really love them. Since Discourse is I crafted a plugin that lets us take back our much loved (gif animated) signatures!

Configure

The Signatures plugin can be enabled either by the toggle or from its settings, both accessible from your /admin/plugins page:

After that, each user can enable the signature setting on their /preferences/profile page and select a signature:

And that’s it!

Advanced Configuration Mode

You can also enable advanced mode in the plugin settings and use a full-blown post editor to create your signature! With text, multiple images, etc.

Settings

Name	Description
signatures enabled	Enable user-made signatures below posts
signatures advanced mode	Let users use a full-blown post editor to create signatures. ( RESETS all existing signatures)
signatures visible by default	Make signatures visible by default. This makes signatures visible for anonymous visitors as well

Credits

Thanks to @charleswalter who pushed for this and made it possible, @eviltrout who made it compatible, and the Discourse team for such an amazing project.

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Last edited by @JammyDodger 2024-06-03T21:48:24Z

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[patrickemin]

Hi, it would be useful to me to be able to restrict that signature functionality to a certain group. Is it feasible? Thanks.

[Lilly (Lillian)]

@patrickemin

How do I enable Discourse signatures only for admin/staff group?

It’s currently not possible to limit the signatures to a certain group through the settings, though I think you could hide the input box for some groups using the CSS Classes for Current User's Groups theme component [1] and a dash of CSS (though people could sidstep that using the browser tools,etc). Though you wouldn’t need it for staff as you can target that group without it ︎

[STORMS]

Agreed. It needs this.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Read up on the link Lilly shared. With CSS you can hide signatures in the user menu I believe if not part of x group or groups.

[ked (Kenny DuBose)]

+1 on the desire for making this available to selectable groups.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

사실상 허용된 그룹에 속하지 않을 경우 표시를 숨기기 위해 #customization:theme-component에서 CSS를 조금 사용하실 수 있습니다. 현재 사용자의 그룹을 클래스로 추가하는 추가 테마 컴포넌트가 필요할 것으로 생각됩니다.

[LotusJeff]

Would someone mind listing their discourse site to see the implementation of this plugin or provide screenshots? I would like to see what the screens look like for this plugin.

[Arkshine]

You do have a screenshot in the first post. Are you looking for something specific?

[LotusJeff]

The provided screenshot does not show a text-only sample. I would like to see how it treats text.

[Arkshine]

@LotusJeff

Here are some screenshots:

The settings:

The user’s profile with Signatures advanced mode enabled:

The result:

Does it help?

[chrismalone]

I’d love the ability to restrict signatures to certain groups. This would allow forums to offer signatures as a perk for higher-level users while keeping the overall experience clean for others.

[chrismalone]

I would like this also. It would be really useful.

[Dimava]

Is it possible to allow/assign signatures only for OP post of topics?

We allow appending Patreon plugs etc in OP and they sometimes get broken on older topics

[Falco]

You can hide it from non-OP posts using a bit of CSS in a custom theme component.

[iShahinAkhter (Shahin Akhter)]

how to restrict signature to certain groups?

[JammyDodger]

I think this still applies for group restricting Signatures:

@JammyDodger

It’s currently not possible to limit the signatures to a certain group through the settings, though I think you could hide the input box for some groups using the CSS Classes for Current User’s Groups theme component [1] and a dash of CSS (though people could sidstep that using the browser tools,etc).