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How do I quote another post?. I see others do it but haven’t worked it out and coukdnt find instructions. At the moment I am copying the lines I want to quote and pasting them in a reply in bold (as I have done here). I am hoping to include Quoting in my next revamp of the Forum but, to be honest, the BBpress software is a bit of a Heath Robinson contraption and I’m reluctant to fix one thing for fear of breaking something else.
This is me experimenting with our new Quote plugin – the button is on the top-right of the post you wish to quote. The coding copies the whole of the quoted post but, as you will see, I have edited out several extraneous lines before adding my comment below.
I strongly recommend anyone else using this to do the same or we will get great slabs of repeated and repeated and repeated text that no one will read.
I also switched off the the normal quote button – the big quote marks in the edit menu above the reply window – so I could type this text as normal type.
NB: Please, don’t use “quote” unless there is a specific point to which you wish to refer, then delete everything else except that sentence. Otherwise just use reply.