Discourse Signatures

:discourse2: Summary Discourse Signatures adds old school forum signatures to Discourse.
:hammer_and_wrench: Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-signatures
:open_book: Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse

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 :rainbow: I crafted a plugin that lets us take back our much loved (gif animated) signatures! :writing_hand:

Configure

You need to enable the plugins options for all users by going to your Admin settings over at your-site/admin/site_settings/ and navigate to the plugins section your-site/admin/site_settings/category/plugins. Then in the filter box, type in signatures to filter out this plugins settings:

After that, each user will need to enable the signature setting on their profile and select a signature:

And that’s it!

Advanced Configuration Mode

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

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.

Notes:

  • It is not possible to make this default on for all users; users must intentionally opt in to have a signature experience.
  • Enable advanced mode if you want both pictures and text in signatures.
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If this is an official supported plugin, shouldn’t it be pre-installed (but not activated) on Discourse-hosted sites?

Not all official plugins are available to all tiers of hosting. This one is restricted to Enterprise last I checked.

You can contact support via your site dashboard to ask for new plugins and we will take the feedback into consideration when deciding to update the list of plugins available to each tier.

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How do users upload images into the signature without a link? Is that possible yet, or am I just not seeing it?

Is this compatible with discourse 3.1 at all?

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It is indeed. :+1: It should be compatible with both stable and the Latest Discourse version.

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Did someone had any experience in which the signature become visible even if the user have deactivated the visibility for it?

I have disabled them as to me it’s just noise, but sometimes I start to see them again and, when going into my profile, it’s actually not enabled. To make them disappear again I have to enable, save, disable and save again.

Is it possible that only the admins and mods have the signatures and restrict all other users to use them?

I’m afraid that’s not possible, but there may be a workaround: