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Removing Primary (Display Name) Profile Field

  • Avatar of pmcvicker
    pmcvicker
    Participant

    @pmcvicker

    1 year, 1 month ago

    Is there any harm done in removing the Primary (Display Name) Profile field from the database? I don’t want my users to have alternate names from their wordpress login name, and as it appears that BP falls back on the wordpress username virtually everywhere, I can’t see any reason why I shouldn’t just delete it from the database altogether. I know this is locked in via BP Settings, but on a test site I was able to remove it from the database and didn’t notice any problems.

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  • Avatar of oaklawn
    oaklawn
    Member

    @oaklawn

    1 year, 1 month ago

    I am having a similar problem. I need to have users to my site ‘Schoolspeakout.com’ to be anonymous. I either need the display name to default to nothing or not be required.

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    Paul Gibbs
    Keymaster

    @djpaul

    1 year, 1 month ago

    I am pretty sure deleting this default field will cause all sorts of subtle bugs and errors throughout BuddyPress. You’ve been warned.

    Avatar of oaklawn
    oaklawn
    Member

    @oaklawn

    1 year, 1 month ago

    Instead of deleting, can it default to nothing or not be a required field?

    Avatar of alexanderraoul
    alexanderraoul
    Member

    @alexanderraoul

    1 year, 1 month ago

    I need help with this aswell. I don’t want my site to have names or display names, just the usernames. Please, can someone tell us how to fix this without jeopardizing anything?

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    naijaping
    Participant

    @naijaping

    1 year, 1 month ago

    @alexanderraoul, i am sure u can hide this with css

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    RaMatheron
    Participant

    @ramatheron

    7 months, 1 week ago

    I’m bumping this topic. I’d like to know too if I can just limit the names for my members to the username. I don’t understand why the ‘Name’ field is required and can’t be turned off… :/

    Can someone help?

    Avatar of talha8877
    talha8877
    Participant

    @talha8877

    5 months, 2 weeks ago

    This is really nonsense. People do not want to become a member because this field is public by default and most of them don’t know how to change it.
    It’s really annoying.

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    greenmeanie
    Participant

    @greenmeanie

    5 months ago

    Most are using this field to SPAM with any idea’s on how to remove it?

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