I was able to use phpmyadmin and go into the database – table: wp_users and change the user_nicename to whatever I wanted. That worked fine.
It looks like regular users who signed up already had nice @names but I think mine were bad in part because I set them up before I set up bbpress and buddypress and it was just trying to use my email address. Plus, setting up multiple accounts at different times to test things.
As far as I can tell people on my site start the process of creating an account with membermouse. So, yeah, I will try creating a new account again and see what I can figure out. I’ve made a bunch of test accounts for myself – so maybe I used the same email or something. I need clean up and delete a bunch of those anyway now.
So does buddypress usually use the regular wordpress login user name? If a site just uses bbpress and buddypress – people set up an acccount just through wordpress and bbpress/buddypress use that?
I don’t know why mine are so long. But I’m also using other plugins – membermouse, wp courseware and bbpress. Maybe they are doing it?
How, where or at what point are they usually created in buddy press? Because the ones for my accounts were not anything I created myself. And what do they usually look like? Are they something simple that a person chooses?
For example, for one test account I set up mine is: @trisha2766__21gmail-com-2-2 – which looks like a variation of my email address. Another one is @xiwang-2-2-2-2-2 – no idea where that came from.
But they are neither one practical for people to type to mention someone.
