Forum plugin which allows you to bring awareness to new members and then display a message to other members

• criteria used is member group and content count
• message is configurable as follows:
  • message can be displayed within the post content, either above or below that content.
  • or message can be displayed above or below the post container itself
  • message uses rich-text editor, so can contain links etc. if you wish
  • message can be enclosed within an 'ipsmessage' box if you wish, with further personal customisation possible via the .neNewMemberIpsMessage theme template
  • or you can style the message's container yourself using the rich-text editor and/or the provided neNewMemberNonIpsMessage theme template
• message is not displayed to Guests, nor is it displayed to the author of a post if that author meets the criteria put in place

Plugin made based on this request

 

Edited February 18, 20195 yr by Nathan Explosion

What's new in v1.1.0

• Addition of a 'topic message' function to allow you to show a general message before or after the topic instead of/as well as showing a message inline with a user's posts within the topic.
• Ability to limit the display of the posts message to only have it displayed for the first post by a user on each topic page, instead of displaying inline with every post by that user.

Hey @Nathan Explosion -

Thank you for making this. It works perfectly fine. I wanted to ask if its possible to Align the IPS message box icon and the new awareness sentence - http://prntscr.com/rv0lrz

Hi,

Can you select which forums this is displayed in?

On 4/7/2020 at 10:53 PM, James101 said:

Hey @Nathan Explosion -

Thank you for making this. It works perfectly fine. I wanted to ask if its possible to Align the IPS message box icon and the new awareness sentence - http://prntscr.com/rv0lrz

As the content added to the IPS message box is from an Editor, it's likely got the <p> </p> tags around the content. I'll look into that for you...see about stripping those out of the content

On 4/9/2020 at 1:16 PM, Unlucky said:

Hi,

Can you select which forums this is displayed in?

I don't believe I added in an option for this - I'll take a look, and will add it in if it isn't there already.

On 4/7/2020 at 10:53 PM, James101 said:

Hey @Nathan Explosion -

Thank you for making this. It works perfectly fine. I wanted to ask if its possible to Align the IPS message box icon and the new awareness sentence - http://prntscr.com/rv0lrz

@James101 for the moment, add the following to your custom.css in your theme:

.neNewMemberIpsMessage p:first-of-type{
  margin:0;
}

I'll be adding that as commented out entry in the nenewmember.css file for the plugin when I release a new version - it can then be removed from custom.css and edited in the nenewmember.css file instead.

Edited June 24, 20204 yr by Nathan Explosion

What's new in v1.1.1

1. addition of a css tweak to bring first paragraph in line with icon in the ipsMessage box
   • to use this tweak, edit the nenewmember.css file and remove the /* and */ around the following item:

   • /*.neNewMemberIpsMessage p:first-of-type{
       margin:0;
     }*/

      

2. added option to configure in which forums the message is displayed

Edited June 24, 20204 yr by Nathan Explosion

@Nathan Explosion : Hi, after the latest update the New Member Awareness does not show up on posts. Its does not work on my forum.

Ok...that, on it's own, doesn't help.

Give more details....what are your settings? What version of IPS are you running? Is this the default theme, or a custom theme?

@James101 I'll be doing some testing later today; would appreciate getting at least a screenshot of what you have for your settings, please.

Testing completed - post message appears fine in all scenarios except one.

1. Please provide a screenshot of your settings as they are now
2. Please advise what version of IPS you are using.

@Nathan Explosion- Sorry for the delay. It was night for me

Settings Screenshots : 

1. http://prntscr.com/t81oe8
2. http://prntscr.com/t81ojn

IPB Version : 4.4.10

Thanks - I'll take a closer look tomorrow morning.

@James101 - not seeing any issues on my local test board. The one scenario where I can reproduce an issue is with IPS 4.5 Beta, so a little stumped here.

Could you send me your site URL, and a login for an account that is in your Members group please?

@Nathan Explosion - Sent you the details via PM 🙂

Hi,

@Nathan Explosion - after the latest update (4.5) the New Member Awareness does not show up on posts again. We faced a similar issue before but you sorted it. Please help me again 🙂

It was caused by your theme last time - uninstall/reinstall the plugin.

@Nathan Explosion - Hi, thank you for getting back so quickly. I uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin again but facing the same issue. I tried on IPS Default theme to see if it shows up on that but still does not show up. Sorry for being a pain.

Same as last time - provide login credentials, give it the permissions I need in the ACP (see the PM)

Thanks for the details - I've tracked the issue down to occurring with the "Posts" 'Where?" settings for 'Above the post content' and 'Below the post content', and the "Topic" 'Where?' settings.

I'll take a closer look later this evening, see what has changed between 4.5.0 and 4.5.2 (version 1.1.1 was released and compatible with 4.5.0)

Hi @Nathan Explosion

I test it on with a test user, it do not show anything to that user, but when I login as admin, I see the plugin working, so is something not working, this on IPB 4.4.10

Regards,

I disable it now.

I wish it only apply to the OP of the first post, not to every replies he did in that thread, as well, let say he/she pass the requirement regarding the post count, then it all disappear, was hoping it stay, for other to see it, maybe I did not fully understand this plugin.

I see what this plugin suppose to do, it meant for others not for the thread OP to see, I do not need this in my forum, as I thought it new thread rules for new user.

Either way it good plugin for whom need it.

Sorry to @James101 for delay in getting the issue resolved - got a work callout on Saturday evening, had to go to a "dark site" customer and been off the grid as a result (don't be an IT consultant, people!!)

What's fixed in v1.1.3?

1. Modifications to support some new Post/Postcontainer template structures in IPS 4.5
2. Fixed issue with the 'Topic message' settings not resulting in a display of the message in IPS 4.4 and IPS 4.5

This update is currently pending IPS approval at this time I'll be submitting a newer version of this one, following review by IPS.

 

On 9/20/2020 at 3:01 PM, abobader said:

I see what this plugin suppose to do, it meant for others not for the thread OP to see, I do not need this in my forum, as I thought it new thread rules for new user.

Either way it good plugin for whom need it.

Yes, this is a plugin to display an awareness message to other users, and not the poster themselves.

Edited September 24, 20204 yr by Nathan Explosion

@Nathan Explosion - Hi, any update on this?

 

Thank you!