You can leave the template, but just make it blank. I think Id rather not add another option for it when the blank addon does the same thing logically.

You can just edit them in the default style if you want. The really dont work as phrases, considering all the things that you might want to put in a template. You can add graphics, links, and reference just about any variable in a template. Phrases are VERY limited. You have to define exactly what variables you can that are available before hand and they are hard coded in the plugin then. You would lose any flexibility.

You could create your own welcome phrases and include them in your welcome template if you were worried about language issues, but this is too limiting for this product.

BTW, if you are testing templates you can change the line in the plugin:

to something like:
This will temporarily make any post for a user under 9999 posts create a welcome post. This would not work well on an open, public forum. But in a test forum, or if you have closed the forum for maintanance, this lets you easily test the templates.

This seems to be working okay, for the most part... but I am noticing one issue... it makes new posts in the pre-existing thread, yes... but it doesn't bump that thread and change it's date. So the new posts get lost in the shuffle. Ideally I'd like for these "welcome posts" to act just like any other, effectively being marked as new and bumping the thread.

And one suggestion while I'm at it, it would be nice if we could incorporate the name of the new member's referrer, if they have one, into the Welcome post.

Something like "Thanks to Tralala, we have a new member aboard. Pamela's first post is here. Let's give our new member a hearty welcome!"

Might also be nice to include their avatar. :)

Would either of these be possible?

Ill take a look this week and see how to get the referer info to the template.

great! I look forward to update of this before install! :)

Tralala great suggestions and same update/bump to the thread the intro posted in would be great ,...

eitherway .. staff member of ours stressed for this and im glad we installed it..

great!

Lenny :)

Thanks this works great...

this doesnt work for me....nothing is created

Sorry for the delay but had something come up and it ate up last week entirely. I will get to it this week (I hope)