Hello everybody. I'm new here. I've done some searching both on LJ and on the web in general and can't find an answer to my question, so I figured I'd try here.

Does anyone know how to customize a LJ S2 layout that by default does not offer the option to show userpics so that it can show userpics with each entry?

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!!

:) elise r.

To my knowledge, no.. :\

http://community.livejournal.com/everything_lj/4612015.html

i think i know the answer to this. i'm going to check my lj because i think i'm using s2. brb with the answer.

okay, i checked and i AM using s2. and if you go here: http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml (while you're logged in) the fourth option should be: show user picture icons with each of your entries? and it should be automatically checked no so just change it to yes. i think that should do it. :)

but if that doesn't work, can you tell me what layout you're using? it might require the css code.

Wow, that page is layout-specific; if a layout by default does not show userpics by every entry, than that option is not going to be available on that page.

Read the page I linked as well as the other entry linked within that page.

which is why i asked her which layout she was using. because obviously if i don't know which layout she's using, then it can't be really be much help.

i'm pretty sure that she wants to be able to choose whether or not she can show userpics for each individual entry.

i'm afraid its an all or nothing deal.

Well, currently, the layout I'm using is Generator, which is one of a number of layouts which do not have a Yes or No option to display userpics -- it just automatically doesn't display them.

While I do know some CSS, I'm not familar at all with LJ's custom S2 code. I guess my question is if there's just some sort of general code in LJ to "turn them on."

I hope that makes more sense.

:) elise

well, if you're using generator then you can't display userpics.

but, you can use a different style. try: peoplemachines or letsbebad... they have really nice layouts. and some of them somewhat look like the generator style.

or just use generator with S2...

if you have a paid account, you can also "build' your generator layout to display userpics. you could also make a theme layer for any S2 layout, possibly coding it so that only some entries would display userpics.