BuddyPress.org | durkk | Mentions https://buddypress.org/members/durkk/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning durkk. Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:43:51 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 3205c8dbacd9aa643689f11a416b91d6 Henry Wright replied to the topic How to make my site like Facebook in the forum Creating & Extending http://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-make-my-site-like-facebook/#post-191890 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:15:59 +0000 Hi @julia_b

As @durkk mentioned, @-mentions work on username and not on display name. So going on what you have in the screenshot, sending a public message to @ Julia Buckley will actually send the message to a user with username @ Julia. This probably isn’t want you want.

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