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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.

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

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

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.

I found this thread doing a Google search for the same type of problem noted above. Not finding a solution, I came up with a quick and dirty fix for my site.

Copy (public) profile name to account user name during registration… the code below simply hides the account user name field and uses jQuery to fill in that field with the profile name value after it is entered or changed by the user.

Hopefully this will prove useful to the next person that comes along with the same problem 🙂

var url = document.location.href;
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
//copy profile name to account name during registration
if (url.indexOf("register/") >= 0) {
    jQuery('label[for=signup_username],#signup_username').css('display','none');
    jQuery('#field_1').blur(function(){
        jQuery("#signup_username").val(jQuery("#field_1").val());
    });
}
});

Sorry for the delay Hans. You can just put the code in your site’s header. Different themes handle this in different ways. For example, in Genesis themes there is a Theme Settings option in the WP Admin tool that has options for adding header and footer code to the site.

Most themes also have a header.php file that you can edit if you’re comfortable with coding but this is usually a bad idea as future updates may undo your work.

Finally, there are some plug-ins that will give you the ability to add code within your sites HTML HEAD section:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/head

Hope that helps!