Creating and Using Avatar Captions
This tutorial explains how to allow your users to create their own unique avatar caption.
This tutorial will walk you through the process of allowing your users to
create their own avatar captions on your forum.
To start with, you need to create a new profile field from your MyBB Admin
Control Panel.
ACP -> Profile Fields -> Add
Create the new field using this information...
Name: Avatar Caption
Field Type: Textbox
Editable by User?: Yes
All the fields not specified above can be set to whatever you like.
When you have added the profile field, you will be returned to the profile
fields section of the ACP. At this point, take note of the the ID number
associated with your new \"Avatar Caption\" field. If you have never
created a new profile field before, this value will most likely be \'4\',
so I will assume that is the case for the rest of this example. If the
value is not 4, use that value in place of 4 in the steps below.
If you now take a look at your profile page in the user control panel, you
will see a new section for an avatar caption. Set yourself a caption to
test that it works.
Now you and your users can specify an avatar caption successfully, but it
still doesn\'t show underneath your avatar. To fix that, you need to edit
the \"postbit_author_user\" template from the admin control panel.
ACP -> Templates -> Modify / Delete -> *Template Set Name*
-> Expand -> Post Bit Templates -> postbit_author_user
Look through that template for the following code.
{$post[\'useravatar\']}<br
/>
Once you have found the above line, add this line below it, and save the
template. Note that you will have to do this for each template set you
use.
{$post[\'fid4\']}
Obviously, as mentioned before, if the ID of your \"Avatar Caption\" field
is anything but \'4\', use that value in place of 4 in the line above.
When you now look at your posts, you should see your cool new avatar
caption beneath your avatar.