Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4193424-20170505032837

I'm working on making my DPLforums function as close to the defunct wikia forum extension as possible. One of my goals is having users names, timestamps, and avatars automatically added to replies.

I have a comment box template that I am trying to make automatically add the username and timestamp of the user who adds it to a page, but am coming across a few issues that I don't know how to fix.


 * 1) Adding ~  to a template results in my own signature. Adding    to the template adds it to the results as well, so that instead of signing as the editor, the space is left with nonfunctioning  ~ . Is there a way to insert the signature text into a template so that it calls the signature of whoever has inserted the template into a page?
 * 2) I installed the js for the Username magic word, which I hope to use in the comment box for user name as well as to automatically grab the user's wikia avatar. However, the username script does not seem to be working correctly on my wiki, as the template documentation still reads while logged in.
 * If I do get the username script working, I am concerned that inserting it into the template will result in the same issue as the signature, and it will either result in the name of the last person to have edited the template, or worse, simply display the name of the person currently looking at the forum. If that is the case, is there anything that can be done to result in an automatically signed template?

Second set of questions -
 * 1) Is there anything I can do to create an input box with the basic format buttons like in this forum(bold, italics, add photo, vid, source vs. visual)? I want to keep my forum users out of the source editor as much as possible, especially with the way that templates seem to prevent the more friendly visual editor from being usable as anything but a tiny text box.
 * 2) DPL galleries- Getting into DPL more, I see that galleries can be made. Is there any way the images can be made to link back to specific pages, or even simply a page that the image is embedded in?

Thank you!  