Title: [Feature Request: WordPress forums] Improvements? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # [Feature Request: WordPress forums] Improvements? * [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/) * (@t31os_) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wordpress-forums-improvements/) * Thought i’d take a few moments to put finger to keyboard and layout a few ideas about where the forum here could do with improvement. * After all, this is the request forum… These are only suggestions, and i appreciate how tasks are given priority, so please take these as simple suggestions… not demands or cries… ! .. 🙂 * Profile area: 1. Better management of Recent activity section. 2. CSS update to “Most recent reply” text/box – it needs to stand out so i can tell which posts have a reply since my last (i currently use Find: in firefox). 3. No reason threads i’ve started need to be on the same area of the profile, a seperate page would reduce queries and give more screen space to the recent replies (more important.. i m p o). * Search: 1. To general – Why can’t we search specific forums or by author? 2. Needless text about the wordpress site in all search results – Also CSS regarding last reply does not stand out * General forum: 1. Shortcodes – Why are there no shortcodes? … or smileys, if only the basic ones * I’d also like to see a few general CSS tweaks to areas of the forum where text needs to stand out more. “Most recent reply” , “Allow markup” , and other areas where text should stand out and be noticed… * Anyone welcome to banter with me on this! .. 🙂 Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wordpress-forums-improvements/#post-1068302) * Can’t argue with you on anything there. * Not sure what shortcodes you would use but just so you know you can use wiki style linking by putting two open brackets and two closing brackets in front of a Codex article name and it will create the link to that document. Of course the code thing on the Forums is screwing it up so I can’t show you the actual brackets 😉 * so openbracket openbracket Templates closebracket closebracket will create a link to the Codex article [Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates). * Thread Starter [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/) * (@t31os_) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wordpress-forums-improvements/#post-1068309) * Do you mean like this… * `t31os` * EDIT: oh lol, it changed my code… * Test: [Blog_Design_and_Layout#Themes_and_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Blog_Design_and_Layout#Themes_and_Templates) [Cookies](http://codex.wordpress.org/Cookies) [yumyum](http://codex.wordpress.org/yumyum)[[!” £$%]] [[^&*()]] [[,.<>]] [[;’#~@:]] [[!”£$%^&*().,<>:;’@~#}{]] [[!aa]] * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wordpress-forums-improvements/#post-1068310) * Yes. * Of course, there is no [http://codex.wordpress.org/t31os](http://codex.wordpress.org/t31os) article but seems you have the idea. * Thread Starter [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/) * (@t31os_) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wordpress-forums-improvements/#post-1068313) * Ah hah, found a way to break it, in my edit…. 🙂 * Handy to know, i am use to copy and pasting links though. I don’t know the codex pages off the top of my head so a quick ctrl+c, ctrl+v proberly a bit quicker.. * So use to googling now, i do it by nature… 🙂 * So for posting codex links, it’s like this.. [[ !like this ]] * Without the ! * RE: Shortcodes. BBcode style, bold, code, etc…. Alot of communities use forums, those forums will use one of many popular pieces of forum software, and 9/10 times it’s going to be one that uses [somefunction] style tags for placing tags into posts. * I think it would be fair to assume alot of users are use to this format, so having that usage is nothing new for a good wealth of users.. * I don’t mind writing with HTML, but not everyone understands what the “Allowed markup” area means (or pays attention to it), but they might well be use to [ code] style tags from using other forums... * That's not to mention the format is already used in wordpress, so why not in the forum? * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wordpress-forums-improvements/#post-1068318) * > I don’t know the codex pages off the top of my head so a quick ctrl+c, ctrl > +v proberly a bit quicker.. * That’s why I created this disaster: [http://codex.wordpress.org/User:MichaelH#Template_Tags_nowikid](http://codex.wordpress.org/User:MichaelH#Template_Tags_nowikid) * Thread Starter [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/) * (@t31os_) * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wordpress-forums-improvements/#post-1068323) * I’d end up using Firefox search on that page to find what i want still. * Ultimately i think i still end up doing as many actions as before… so i’m no better off.. lol.. :-s * I think i’ll stick with the tried and tested… 🙂 I’m use to the procedure… Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘[Feature Request: WordPress forums] Improvements?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [forum](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/forum/) * [improvements](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/improvements/) * [request](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/request/) * [tweaks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tweaks/) * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/) * 6 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/) * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-wordpress-forums-improvements/#post-1068323) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics