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Display names are not usernames

The Champ
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@the-champ

11 years, 11 months ago

Hey gang,

I’m getting a lot of complaints about how my site displays users’ real names by default. Everybody hates it, and it makes me spend a lot of time going into their profiles and changing them.

Please tell me a way to make it so the “username” is the default instead. Even if I have to change code or something.

Thanks

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@ChrisClayton
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@chrisclayton

11 years, 11 months ago

Not sure if it still works as intended as it is about two years old but you might want to have a look at this plugin. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-usernames-only/

The Champ
Member

@the-champ

11 years, 11 months ago

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I had actually already tried that before posting, and it says it hasn’t been tested with my version. All it did was break my registration system.

The Champ
Member

@the-champ

11 years, 11 months ago

As a workaround, I found a plugin that let me change the registration username/password email, and inserted instructions on how to change their nickname.

It would still be nice if people automatically had their username for their nickname like they expected, lol.

fmeroney
Member

@fmeroney

11 years, 10 months ago

Posted this here also; https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/display-name-doesn%C2%B4t-fit-between-bp-and-wp-fields/

This Plugin may help, tested on a single site, hasn’t been tested on a multi-site install. I was having the same issue, so I had this developed. Let me know if it works for you.

FYI: I submitted it to WP for inclusion in their repository, should be there soon.

http://scenicjobs.com/wordpress-plugins

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