how to display age w/o b-day?

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How do I get my age displayed without displaying my birthdate? I am not vain about my age, but i hate having my birthday recognized or celebrated in any way and have found the best way to avoid this is to keep my birthday a secret.

Celtic Rose
I have spent some time trying to figure out how to do what you want. I found if you go to your My Account Page and down to Edit birthday, you can, if you click on the down arrow you can set it to show you birthday, show birthday but not year, or show nothing. The actual birth date above is to prove you are above 13 to get in the site and then over 18 to get into the adult sections. But if you don't show your birth year, I can't get it to show my age in the little short description under my avatar.

maybe playing around with it you might find what you need. I have to go back now and change it back!

Merle

Thanks, but that doesn't help much. Maybe an option needs to be added where you can show the year but not the actual day?

there are many, many features this site does not provide, Celtic Rose.

Merle

That is the same thing... except that people would need to watch your age for a whole year - then when it changed, that would be your birthday.

Actually... the solution many people use is to not give their exact birthday, but one that is close (say, within a month). It would be accurate enough for most purposes.

And how do we un-hide our last login time? I don't mind if mine is shown, but can't find where to un-hide it.

What an obvious and simple solution... my birthday came early this year .

I guess we can only dream of a conversion to the latest vBulletin... which supposedly is part of what funds are being raised for on WP.

I'd hope not. It's proprietary. And different.

The "different" part would be awful but I would deal with it for a working search function.

WP has a "working" search function. I think Alex has turned it off purely because it eats up server time, which is at a premium. If vBulletin had a search facility, it would probably be slower than this one, and also would get turned off.

Actually the issue with the search, from experience, is more to do with development history and some diseconomies as a result. It is also to do with previous versions of phpBB.

Most forums, even ones do that have a lot of data and users have a search facility of some sort. Of course you can make sacrifices to optimise, but it is still can be usable. It doesn't have to eat up as much resource as it was.

One of the major issues is if you have a redundant search technology and a whole load of data is it can take a long time to re-index. Personally in that case I would be more inclined not to focus on old data but focus on from now on. Day by day it will get better. You have to archive stuff eventually. But having a year or so searchable content is desirable.

I have no problem with the Google search, so long as the site is/can be well indexed on google. For instance many info sites like apache docs use Google very effectively to search their site with no cost to them. One thing Google is a stickler for is relevance. It success is based on their technology which is still secret, although people have learned a lot thought trial. WP is not so well indexed that you can use the Google in order to search old posts. You need to be able to control the content a lot (no a forum plus) for it to be ranked and even then is no guarantee. Certainly Google will not hold forum data for very long as page rating is linked to the searches themselves, so most will fall by the wayside within days and weeks..