Topic Display Options

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User-Settable Maximum Displayed Posts

If you would like to allow the user to set their own maximum posts per topic then give the options separated by commas.

Example setting: 10,20,30,40

Variable Name: usermaxposts
Data Type: free
Default Value: 5,10,20,30,40

Show Default Post Icon

If you would like to use a default icon for messages without an icon, enter the path to the image here.

Variable Name: showdeficon
Data Type: free
Default Value:

Number of Characters Before Wrapping Text

If you want posts to automatically insert spaces into long words to make them wrap after a certain number of characters, set the number of characters in the box above.

If you do not want this to occur, enter 0.

Variable Name: wordwrap
Data Type: integer
Default Value: 50

Check Topic Rating

If enabled, this option will check if a user voted on a topic and show their vote if they have. Otherwise, they will see the voting options even if they are not able to vote again. This can have an effect on performance.

Variable Name: threadvoted
Data Type: boolean
Default Value:

Post Elements

There is optional user information that you may display on each post. These options require a bit of processing time to calculate.

Variable Name: postelements
Data Type: bitfield
Default Value: 0

Post Signature Inline

If enabled, this option will allow user’s post signature to be displayed inline, below the content.

Variable Name: showsignaturesinline
Data Type: boolean
Default Value: 1

Enable Schema Microdata

Schema.org provides a collection of shared vocabularies webmasters can use to mark up their pages in ways that can be understood by the major search engines: Google, Microsoft, Yandex and Yahoo!

Variable Name: schemaenabled
Data Type: boolean
Default Value: 1

Preview Text Length

On the activity stream page, this is the amount of text displayed as a preview.

Variable Name: previewLength
Data Type: posint
Default Value: 200

Shows a Facebook Share button on topic display.

This can be enabled without enabling other Facebook features or creating a Facebook App.

Variable Name: sharing_facebook
Data Type: boolean
Default Value: 1

Shows a Twitter Tweet button on topic display.

Variable Name: sharing_twitter
Data Type: boolean
Default Value: 1

Twitter User Name

If sharing to Twitter is enabled, when a user shares a post to Twitter, this username will be added to the tweet as “via @username”. You would normally use this if you have an official Twitter account related to your website. Enter the username without the “@” symbol.

Leave blank to disable this feature.

Variable Name: sharing_twitter_username
Data Type: free
Default Value:

updated: 2021-10-06 03:12pm | Version: 5.6.5 Alpha 11