Help:Custom signatures

Custom signatures allow you to overwrite the default signature (The text that shows up when you type ~~~~, or hit the signature button).

Creating a Custom Signature

1. Navigate to User:USERNAME/Sig

Note: Replace USERNAME with your Portal Wiki username.

2. Edit the page, and include everything that you want to be in your sig. For example, to recreate the default signature, you'd add something like:

[[User:USERNAME|USERNAME]]

3. Save the page

4. Go to Special:Preferences

5. In the "Signature" field, add the following:

{{SUBST:User:USERNAME/Sig}}

6. Check the box marked "Treat signatures as Wikitext (without an automatic link)"

That's it. Next time you use ~~~~ it will be replaced with the contents of your /Sig page.

Condensing your Signature Code

When using the instructions above, the entirety of the code for the signature is pasted onto the talk page. This may result in long strings of code simply for your signature. In order to get around this, a second template is required.

1. After following the instructions above, Navigate to User:USERNAME/Sig2

2. Edit the page, and simply put {{User:USERNAME/Sig}}

3. Go to Special:Preferences

4. In the "Signature" field, replace anything inside it with the following:

{{SUBST:User:USERNAME/Sig2}}

Save, and now your signature will only be a few characters long instead of several lines. This will help to clean up talk pages that are suffering from excessive signatures.