User titles

User titles are the descriptions of a user that are displayed under his or her username in a post. These titles will often refer to one of three things:

• The user’s amount of activity on the board (Junior Member, Senior Member, etc.). This is usually set through the automatic titles. Automatic Titles allow you to set up a ladder of titles that can be applied to users based on the number of posts they have made. For example, when a user signs up, he may be given the title as Junior Member, and then when that user has made 100 posts, he could be granted the user title as Senior Member.

Please follow the instructions below to add a title to the Automatic Titles ladder:

1. Log in to your Website Toolbox account.
2. Click the Settings link.
3. Click the Users link.
4. Click the Manage link next to Titles.
5. Click New Title.
6. Enter the Title you want to specify.
7. Enter the Minimum posts required to reach that title.
8. Save your settings.

• The user's relationship to the board (Administrator, Moderator, etc.). This is usually set through a user group specific title:

1. Log in to your Website Toolbox account.
2. Click the Users link in the main menu.
3. Click on the Manage link next to the user group of your choice.
4. In the Manage menu, click Permissions.
5. Enter the Title you want to specify.
6. Save your settings.

• A custom title can be specified by a user or an administrator and is referred to anything that a user desires. A user can set their own custom title if they have the Custom Title user group permission. Following are the steps using which a custom title can be specified:

1. Log in to your forum.
2. Click the Avatar image located towards the top right of the page.
3. Click the Edit Profile link from the drop down.
4. Click edit icon next to the Custom User Title option.
5. Click Update to save your changes.

If the Custom User Title option doesn't appear on the page, that means you are not logged in as an administrator or if the user is editing their own account, they don't have the Custom Title user group permission. By default, normal users don't have permission to set their own custom title.

The following steps can be used by the administrator to manually specify/change the title of a particular user:

1. Log in to your Website Toolbox account.
2. Click the Settings link.
3. Click the Users link.
4. Click the Manage link next to Titles.
5. Enter the Username of the user for whom you want to specify/change the title under Custom Titles.
6. Click on Submit.
7. Enter the Title.
8. Save your settings.

Title Priority

Priority is given to the custom title specified for a user. If a custom title is not specified, the priority will be given to the title specified for the user group. If a user group title has not been specified, a title from the Automatic Titles ladder will be used if the user meets the criteria for any of the given titles. Otherwise, no title will be used for the user.

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