[Tutorial] Show the first post reminder in specific topics

With this trick you will be able to show the first post reminder in only specific topics.
It works in phpBB3, punBB, Invision and modernBB.
It doesn't work in phpBB2.

Instructions

1) Enable the first post option.

To do that you have to go to:
General  Configuration  Messages  Always show the first post in the topics  Yes

2) Open the template viewtopic_body

Display  Templates  General  viewtopic_body

phpBB3 and modernBB:

punBB:

Invision:

3) Add this in your CSS

Display  Colors  CSS Stylesheet

Code: /* Hide first post reminder (default) */ .first_post, #first-post-br { display: none }

4) Insert the Javascript

Modules  Javascript codes management  Create a new Javascript

Make sure you have Javascript Codes enabled.

Name: First post toggle
Placement: In all the pages

Code:

$(function() {
  $('.first_post').filter(function(){
    var e = $(this);
    if (e.html().indexOf("<!--first_post-->")) {
      var post = e[0];
      var br = post.nextElementSibling;
      post.style.display = "block";
      br.style.display = "block";
    }
  });
});

How to use it

The first post will not be displayed by default in other pages.
To display it you have to add

Code: <!--first_post-->

on its content. Don't worry, that will not be shown in the post itself.

Extra:

And that's all. Hope you find it useful

And what does this do? Do we have an image to see the result?

Well, it's difficult to show the result with an image in this case, but let's see...

Spoiler:

I used the same principle as in the tutorial Hide the sentence "Last edited by..." on specific or all messages. Also, now the first post reminder has a specific class called first_post, so you could modify some properties of it via CSS.

Spoiler:

So if you do not want to use the first reminder feature in the AP, you can use this one for certain topics?

Long story short, this uses the first reminder feature in the AP but "hides" it by default except for certain topics.
Sorry if I didn't explain it well enough the first time.

How do I disable the first topic reminder ? I think it is causing some issues . I do not like it anyway . I think I have version phpBB .

skouliki wrote:

azwiz wrote:How do I disable the first topic reminder ? I think it is causing some issues . I do not like it anyway . I think I have version phpBB .

Administration Panel .... General .. Messages and emails ... Configuration
Always show the first post in the topics : No

Okay I have turned it off .
Thank you .
If you have not seen my current support post . Please view it at
https://help.forumotion.com/t159228-how-to-fix-this-coding-problem#1108929

Maybe you can help figure it out .

Thank you .

azwiz wrote:How do I disable the first topic reminder ? I think it is causing some issues . I do not like it anyway . I think I have version phpBB .

Administration Panel .... General .. Messages and emails ... Configuration
Always show the first post in the topics : No