Display user bio as a signature

Damon

In a community-oriented forum, showing the user bio only in the avatar popover is not very intuitive for regular users. To improve visibility, I created this extension to display the user’s bio at the bottom of each post as a signature.

This extension reads the user bio provided by FriendsOfFlarum User Bio, so you need to install and enable the User Bio extension and set the bio content.

After installation, simply enable the extension to use it. If you need to customize the styles, you can modify .Post-signature yourself.

Preview:

Since my forum is still running on Flarum 1.8, this extension has not been tested on Flarum 2.0 yet.

Install

composer require damonhu/flarum-ext-biosignature:*

Update

composer update damonhu/flarum-ext-biosignature:*
php flarum cache:clear
php flarum assets:publish

GitHub

https://github.com/DamonHu/flarum-ext-biosignature

KBExit

Damon that's a clever idea! Thank you for making it! I'll give it a shot later today! 😉

Damon

KBExit 😄

vimo

Do you need another extension to add user's bio. I don't find anything to change bio

Tutrix

vimo
FriendsOfFlarum User Bio

vimo

Tutrix Thx. Maybe it's good to mention in the 1st post @Damon ?

GreXXL

vimo Damon ideally you would set a dependency that fof/user-bio is automatically requested by composer when you install this extension.

Damon

My oversight. I’ll fix it later.

vimo

Having 2 issues at the moment:

When BBcode enabled the signature shows <p><t>my text<t><p>
Only first 3 lines visible (FoF Bio setting "Maximum number of lines that can be displayed simultaneously" is 5)

Damon

vimo 1.8.0.37 fixed

composer update damonhu/flarum-ext-biosignature:*

vimo

Damon Still some strange things:

1st time after update the bbcode was ok. Now when i want to change the text again and i click in the field, automatic this code is filled in <t><p>my text</p></t>.
Only when you click cancel its ok, when you cluck save, you see this code.
Only 1 line possible now in the signature.

Damon

vimo If it’s convenient, could you send me a link so I can take a look?

Damon

vimo Only 1 line possible now in the signature.

You can try adding this css.

.Post-signature {
  white-space: pre-line;
}

vimo

Damon Just the link of the forum? Or you need admin access?

Damon

vimo It’s a BBCode parsing issue. I’ve rebuilt a test forum and have reproduced the bug. Later today, I’ll look for a solution and try to fix it. Wish me luck. 🍀

Damon

vimo Good news! The issue has been resolved. It turned out that the bio format was being parsed twice, which caused a conflict between two plugins. I’ve fixed it now and pushed an update 1.8.0.41.

composer update damonhu/flarum-ext-biosignature:*
php flarum cache:clear
php flarum assets:publish

vimo

Hello @Damon

Thank you for your effort.
Good news: Lines issue solved and bbcode works fine 😀

Now an other strange issue is appeared:
When i put a "-" (dash) on the second line, the full bio text becomes bigger and bold

Anyway thanks for fixes already

huseyinfiliz

vimo This comes from the default way of working with the Markdown format.

KBExit

This is odd. I have it installed and enabled, but BIO is not showing as a signature in the posts. Cleared cache and everything. No errors in console.

Damon

KBExit The signature style uses the CSS class .Post-signature and is displayed at the end of each post. You can check whether any other plugins are overriding or affecting the display of this CSS.