Title: Feature request: Different text for topic & reply posting rules
Last modified: March 7, 2019

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# Feature request: Different text for topic & reply posting rules

 *  Resolved [Antipole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antipole/)
 * (@antipole)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-different-text-for-topic-reply-posting-rules/)
 * You have added the option to include text for posting rules/advice. This could
   be really useful. At present one enables it separately for topics and replies
   bu it is the same text.
 * Could we please have separate text for the two cases.
 * Rational: I would like to include advice to those making replies like “Before
   posting a reply, consider x, y and z”. This would be inappropriate to display
   on the new topic form.
 * Thanks.

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 *  Plugin Author [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-different-text-for-topic-reply-posting-rules/#post-11321444)
 * now in 4.1.9 just released
 *  Thread Starter [Antipole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antipole/)
 * (@antipole)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-different-text-for-topic-reply-posting-rules/#post-11323246)
 * Great – thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [Antipole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antipole/)
 * (@antipole)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-different-text-for-topic-reply-posting-rules/#post-11323507)
 * Minor observations:
    The posting rules for a new topic appears **after** the “
   Your account has the ability to post unrestricted HTML content” message. The 
   posting rules for a new reply appears **before** the “Your account has the ability
   to post unrestricted HTML content” message.
 * I think I am supposed to be able to style/colour these texts with the controls
   in section 11. I cannot make these work, even with a default theme. Am I missing
   something?
 *  Plugin Author [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-different-text-for-topic-reply-posting-rules/#post-11324826)
 * ok, I’ve changed them to be consistent – will be in next release.
 * The styling works fine on my test site.
 * as a test, can you try adding this to custom css and let me know the result, 
   it should give a yellow background
 *     ```
       #bbpress-forums .bsp-topic-rules {
       	background-color: #eeee22;
       }
       ```
   
 * if that doesn’t work then try
 *     ```
       #bbpress-forums .bsp-topic-rules {
       	background-color: #eeee22 !important;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Antipole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antipole/)
 * (@antipole)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-different-text-for-topic-reply-posting-rules/#post-11325759)
 * Styling now working for me. It was a caching issue.
    Sorry about that!
 *  Plugin Author [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * (@robin-w)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-different-text-for-topic-reply-posting-rules/#post-11325908)
 * no problem 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Robin W](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robin-w/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-different-text-for-topic-reply-posting-rules/#post-11325908)
 * Status: resolved