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“Display name publicly as” to XProfile Name

josh.grisdale
Participant

@joshgrisdale

6 years, 2 months ago

Hello,

BuddyPress defaults to showing “Display name publicly as” as First Name, Last Name. This shows up on users’ profile page, in activity, forums etc.

In the XProfile Settings, there is a “Name” field users can edit. However, changing this does nothing on the website. Everyone still shows up as the “Display name publicly as” in activity and forums etc.

Users are confused as to why they cannot change their display name… Is there anyway to link the two?

Thanks

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Prashant Singh
Participant

@prashantvatsh

6 years, 2 months ago

For new users you can use the code mentioned here https://forums.wpsharks.com/t/pro-form-buddypress-make-display-name-default-to-username-or-make-it-custom-profile-field/2113

For existing users you can give this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-real-names/
a try.

Thanks

josh.grisdale
Participant

@joshgrisdale

6 years, 2 months ago

The plugin is very old… could it break my site?

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