Hi guys,

What’s the best way to pre-populate the topic’s text area with the @username of the person you’re replying to?

When you currently hit “reply” to a forum entry, it takes you to the text box, but you still have to copy + paste the user’s @username if you want to tag them in the reply (or type manually). Not user-friendly.

Suggestions?

[@piksel Participant 10 years, 8 months ago]

nothing? surprised no one else hasn’t already implemented this.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 8 months ago]

This is doable with some code, but obviously no-one has thought it critical enough to code it – sorry !

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 10 years, 8 months ago]

Could easily be done with some JS. Anyone want to try a patch?

[@netweb Keymaster 10 years, 8 months ago]

There is a good discussion of this here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1767

Also this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpress-direct-quotes/

[@piksel Participant 10 years, 8 months ago]

@netweb thanks. I did see that direct quotes plugin; what I didn’t like was that you couldn’t highlight and then quote just a selection. Minute detail, but if the quoted post is looong, I found it annoying to have to go in and delete all the unwanted parts of the post just to get the right phrase or sentence to quote.

Ultimately what I was looking for is just a simple pre-population of the username once you hit “reply” in a person’s post.

@johnjamesjacoby glad to know it’s at least doable, and not too complicated. Hopefully someone down the road would want to take it on!