Solved [Solved] Anonymous posting - feature adjustment or text removal

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I have a tiny board with only a few categories, a certain group of people who all know each other uses it mainly to sell things or tell others about cool new restaurants and suchlike. They shouldn't need a login for that. (Posts are moderated and the system was never abused, so I want to continue keeping it simple.)

So far I was using Joomla 2.5 and Kunena 2.0.2.
People were posting as guests, putting their names into the "name" box manually, and the names appeared on the forum:


With the new board all guests would post as "Anonymous":


My questions are:
1. Is there a way to treat guest postings again like in 2.0.2, so that the names they entered appear instead of "Anonymous" for all?
2. If this is not possible, could you tell me how to remove the "Anonymous"-related text from the board?

I already found the way to remove the 'log in' option ( here , thanks guys!), but there are others I'm not sure where to find:

"by Anonymous" on the main page:


"by Anonymous" inside the category:


All the highlighted text that refers to logging in and registering on the New Topic page.
Also, if the name of the author is never shown, I'd like to remove the name field as well, if possible:


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Thank you very much in advance!

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Also, if the name of the author is never shown, I'd like to remove the name field as well, if possible:

The name will be shown if the user has entered a name in this field.

You can hide the other things with language overrides.
www.kunena.org/docs/en/languages/language-overrides

Enter this constants and let the text field empty.

COM_KUNENA_LOGIN_PLEASE_SKIP
COM_KUNENA_GEN_INFO_GUEST_CANNOT_EDIT_DELETE_MESSAGE

The name will be shown if the user has entered a name in this field.

I was about to say that this was definitely not working on my board, but then waited until I could test it once more and lo and behold, it is indeed working today.


I'm slightly confused, but happy nevertheless, as this was a medium-sized problem on my end.

You can hide the other things with language overrides.

That got rid of the unnecessary text, thanks a lot for your help!! :lol: