Simple Machines Help

Thanks for alerting me to this forum software Danny, it's one of the best freeware systems I've seen, and pretty close to what I've been looking for.

'Quick & Dirty' answer, after a brief trawl through the code (it can't be done via Admin configs, unless I'm missing something). This is for version smf 1.1.10: can't say other vers are identical, but should be similar:

Locate "\Themes\default\Display.template.php" in your Simple Machines directory.

Locate the following comment (line 275 in above ver):

// Show the member's primary group (like 'Administrator') if they have one.

Add the following before the closing bracket on the next line:

&& $message['member']['group'] != 'Moderator'

So the entire line should read:

if (isset($message['member']['group']) && $message['member']['group'] != '' && $message['member']['group'] != 'Moderator')

And that'll do the trick. At least, 'Moderator' won't show up in the 'Author' column, but it probably will in the member profile, haven't checked that out yet. Should be simple enough to fix as well.

You'll have to repeat this for each "Display.template.php" file in any other Themes sub-directories.

Or you could substitute 'Moderator' with 'Member'

You could also a new Member Group (Admin->Members->Membergroups), e.g. 'Plainclothes Moderator' if you wanted to have some moderators displayed and some hidden, but you would still have to modify the above code. And don't forget to modify again for each update.

A nicer solution would be to put in a feature request to make it a permanent option.

I'm just a little curious as to why you want to do this? Umarked police car stuff? An egalitarian thing? You don't have to answer that of course

Brian

Cheers for the reply, I found a quick solution and that was to give SPACE moderator rights... however when they do mod something it says it was edited by the member doh!!

So I will get on SMF over the next day or so and see what can be done

Cheers

Danny