BuddyPress

When a user comments on my (Buddypress-enabled) blog, the comment appears under their Displayname.

However if a user wishes to reply to them using an @-message, they need to know their Username, and this isn’t always immediately obvious. Consequently, I get a lot of users typing in the Username incorrectly, or just typing the Displayname prefixed by an @ symbol.

What I’d like to do is show both the Displayname and Username next to each comment, e.g.:

Ben (@bensmith101)

I’ve had a look in the code for comments.php and coding this seems some way beyond my abilities! Can anyone suggest how to do this?

If you use default BP theme just replace that line after class=”comment-meta” to:

http://pastebin.com/LMbh4mwQ

However, I don’t know how to do same with group forums. Any ideas?

Thanks for the suggestion @wceolin

I found the following in functions.php which seems to be the code I need to replace:

<div class="comment-meta">
<p>
<?php
/* translators: 1: comment author url, 2: comment author name, 3: comment permalink, 4: comment date/timestamp*/
printf( __( '<a href="%1$s" rel="nofollow">%2$s</a> said on <a href="%3$s"><span class="time-since">%4$s</span></a>', 'buddypress' ), get_comment_author_url(), get_comment_author(), get_comment_link(), get_comment_date() );
?>
</p>
</div>

I don’t know how to replace the code in functions.php – I’m happy to look up how to do that, but before I do I just wanted to check this is definitely the code I need to replace and I’m not barking up the wrong tree!