Official Font Color
 

Hi.

I write video games, and use my website forum for customer support, and other issues on my games. I would like to change my forum to run similar to other gaming forums I've seen.

It's a simple change but I would like to have my moderators text show up as green, and my development team members text to show up as blue. I do not want any other members to be able to change the font color.

I've seen a lot of gaming forums using this because it makes it easy to find posts from the staff members, and stops people from being mistaken as an employee.

I know I can stop people from using colors for text from the ACP, but is there already a way to assign text colors to a set usergroup?

Also if someone from the development team posts on the forum it will change the thread icon to a special icon I have designed. One that cannot be choosen by users. This way threads that have replies from the development team are easy to locate by looking at the board.

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I talked to vB.com and they said its impossbile. I had an idea may it would be the easiest way. Maybe if I just disable BBcode color all togther, and then in the postbit_legacy template put something in there like

if usergroup is admin <font color=blue> and if usergroup is moderator <font color=green> but I have no idea of the exact code because I'm not good with that language, and I don't know where to put it in the template, or even if it would work for that matter.

I would also like the color to show up on project tools posts as well, but not on blog posts because those are more a personal nature and reading a huge blue blog would be annoying.

It is not impossible to have usergroups post with set colors. It just isn't a default setting you can turn on and off. Do a search in this forum for "admin*" or "backgro*" and you should find some threads about changing the background just for some usergroups or changing the font color just for some usergroups. It's a simple tweak in the postbit (or postbit_legacy) template.

I don't have the blog or tools mod, so I can't comment on how to do it in those templates, but I'm sure it's the same method as in the postbit.

I serched for that text and found over 500 results. I don't know what mod you are talking about, from them.

<a href="https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=196613&highlight=admin%2A" target="_blank">change color of admin posts</a>

Thanks, I don't see why vB allows this for signatures automatically but not for posts, kind of silly, but anyway.

A lot of gaming websites use this method so that game masters are different color posts then the player posts. I guess not too many people use vB for a gaming website forum, idk.