[Artisantopia]

HI! I’ve spent hours trying to find a way to set up signatures and I can’t find one.

This seems like a pretty standard thing to offer users – I want to be able to create a standard signature in extended profile then have it automatically added to every forum post (new and replies).

I have BuddyPress 1.5.5 and have activated extended profiles and forums for groups.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to do this? Thanks!!!

[@mercime]

No signature plugin for BuddyPress Group Forums, but there is one for bbPress Sitewide Forums https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbp-signature/

[Artisantopia]

Thanks @mercime that’s what I thought. But, that seems very odd to me – why not have one that works on both types of forums. This is a pretty basic thing to offer to members.

I know enough php to get myself into trouble, with some guidance do you think I could perhaps edit that plugin to make it work on group forums?

thanks for your help

[@mercime]

No, you’d need to create a totally different plugin to add signature to the Group Forums as it’s using the bbPress 1.0 custom BuddyPress version while that plugin is for the totally revamped bbPress 2.+ .

There was a plugin for the old BP1.2/bbPress1.+ but it was not updated for BP 1.5 https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-group-forum-extras/ you could try to update yourself or hire a developer to do so.

Other than the above, you could wait for BP 1.6 where Group Forums will be migrated over to bbPress 2.+ Sitewide Forums where you could use the signature plugin.

[palmdoc]

Now that we are on 1.7 and bbPress integration, does any signature plugin work? What if users are still on legacy Group forums?

[@mercime]

@palmdoc the signature plugin for bbPress should work for sitewide and group forums set up with bbPress plugin. I do not think that the signature plugin ever worked on the legacy Group forums in the first place. As for legacy group forums per se, following are your options: https://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/using-bbpress-2-2-with-buddypress/