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BP 1.7: How do I display username under avatar in activity feed?

3ring
Participant

@3ring

11 years, 7 months ago
Hey All;

In the BuddyPress 1.7 activity feed (mytheme/buddypress/activity/entry.php), the user’s avatar gets displayed beside their status update like so:
```
    <div class="activity-avatar">
      <a href="<?php bp_activity_user_link(); ?>">
        <?php bp_activity_avatar(); ?>
      </a>
    </div>
```
I’d like to display the user’s username underneath their avatar, and I tried using this code, but for some reason she no work.
```
    <div class="activity-avatar">
      <a href="<?php bp_activity_user_link(); ?>">
        <?php bp_activity_avatar(); ?>
      </a>
      <br />
      <a href="<?php bp_activity_user_link(); ?>" class="nicename">
        @<?php bp_get_displayed_user_username(); ?>
      </a>
    </div>
```
Would someone please kindly show me how to simply display the user’s username/nicename in the activity feed entry?

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shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

11 years, 7 months ago

bp_get_displayed_user_username() will fetch the name but won’t display it.

So you can do this:

echo bp_get_displayed_user_username()

Or use bp_displayed_user_username()

3ring
Participant

@3ring

11 years, 7 months ago

Thanks @shanebpdev but neither of those worked?? Have you tried it?

3ring
Participant

@3ring

11 years, 7 months ago

@shanebpdev – Should I be declaring a global variable somewhere first?

shanebp
Moderator

@shanebp

11 years, 7 months ago

You might need the global
global $activities_template;

Try
echo $activities_template->activity->user_nicename

or
echo $activities_template->activity->user_login
3ring
Participant

@3ring

11 years, 7 months ago
@shanebpdev – it worked! I used:
```
        <a href="<?php bp_activity_user_link(); ?>" class="nicename"> 
			@<?php global $activities_template;
			echo $activities_template->activity->user_nicename; 
			?>
        </a>
```
Thanks so much for your prompt help!!

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