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Display Name not used fro bbPress, inside a BuddyPress installation

cmavrikas
Participant

@cmavrikas

8 years, 7 months ago

Hello,

I have a WordPress/BuddyPress/bbPress installation.

I have noticed in the activity stream that all activity coming from either the blog or the social network functionality of BuddyPress, the user name displayed is the one filled by the user during registration as the Display Name.

On the other hand, in bbPress forums and in the activity stream related to the forums, the user name displayed is the login name.

It is really annoying, because the same user appears with different names in the same stream (if user has selected a different Display Name than the user name).

Is there a way to have the Display name everywhere, including bbPress forums?

Thank you

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Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

8 years, 7 months ago

This would need a change in the bbPress templates. I don’t know how useful the bbPress support forums are, but you could try leaving a message at http://bbpress.org

cmavrikas
Participant

@cmavrikas

8 years, 7 months ago

Hi,
you are probably right, but I am not sure where is the source of the problem. I just discovered that for every new user that registers in the site (with a user-name and a public-name), what I see in the admin/users is:

Username: user-name
First name: user-name
Nickname: public-name
Display name publicly as: user-name is selected and not public-name!!!

Why the user-name and not the public-name is selected? this drives me crazy… Whatever new name the user edit in his profile, it is never selected!

cmavrikas
Participant

@cmavrikas

8 years, 7 months ago

It turned out to be a problem caused by the caching plugin used by my hosting provider!

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