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you may be able to hide the element but you won’t be able to obscure the profile url so there’s really no way (at least that i know of) to make usernames truly private.

easiest way is probably by redefining the element as hidden through an overriding css rule, should work but i’m not sure i’d never personally tried, it’s sorta counter to the whole idea of a social network to do that i think and it’s possible it’s not quite that simple.

or go to member-header.php and remove it properly since hiding it with css means its visible inside the page source anyway, not very hidden

np @samdg but as mentioned higher in the thread, removing the username from the url might be a different story

Hi @metalmick

@username on the profile header is displayed with this code in BP 1.9.2
(see bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/members-header.php:28)

if ( bp_is_active( 'activity' ) && bp_activity_do_mentions() ) : ?>
   <span class="user-nicename">@<?php bp_displayed_user_mentionname(); ?></span>
endif; 

The @ sign is hardcoded in the span, so you have to remove it manualy from the file.
To do this, you can hide it with a CSS rule or you can remove the whole if statement if you use member-header.php file within a child theme/theme.

A more elegant solution would be to do this with a function, so we haven’t to think about theme modification or to forgot a CSS rule or to check BP after each update.

The function bp_displayed_user_mentionname is declared in /plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-template.php:1027

As this function is a filter, we can simply remove it to remove the @username from the template. But because the hardcoded @ sign before the username, we have to add a CSS rule with the remove_filter function. The function above will do all that.

Add these snippet to your bp-custom.php (read here if you don’t know this file)

/* remove @username from the profile header */

function bpfr_remove_mention_from_profile() {	

	echo '<style> h2.user-nicename { display:none; } </style>'; // hide the h2 containing the @

	if( bp_is_user() && ! bp_get_member_user_id() ) {  // be sure we get the right user_id
        $user_id = 'displayed: '. bp_displayed_user_id();
    } else {
        $user_id = 'get_member_user: '. bp_get_member_user_id();
    }

	remove_filter( 'bp_get_displayed_user_mentionname', bp_activity_get_user_mentionname( bp_displayed_user_id() ) );
	
}
add_filter( 'bp_get_displayed_user_mentionname', 'bpfr_remove_mention_from_profile' ); 

Succesfully tested on BP 1.9.2 and 2.0 beta 1

This is what I did, ignoring the bit above:

The function bp_displayed_user_mentionname is declared in /plugins/buddypress/bp-activity/bp-activity-template.php:1027

As this function is a filter, we can simply remove it to remove the @username from the template. But because the hardcoded @ sign before the username, we have to add a CSS rule with the remove_filter function. The function above will do all that.

Add these snippet to your bp-custom.php (read here if you don’t know this file)

/* remove @username from the profile header */

function bpfr_remove_mention_from_profile() {

echo ‘<style> h2.user-nicename { display:none; } </style>’; // hide the h2 containing the @

if( bp_is_user() && ! bp_get_member_user_id() ) { // be sure we get the right user_id
$user_id = ‘displayed: ‘. bp_displayed_user_id();
} else {
$user_id = ‘get_member_user: ‘. bp_get_member_user_id();
}

remove_filter( ‘bp_get_displayed_user_mentionname’, bp_activity_get_user_mentionname( bp_displayed_user_id() ) );

}
add_filter( ‘bp_get_displayed_user_mentionname’, ‘bpfr_remove_mention_from_profile’ );

I have returned everything as it was but would appreciate your input as i still want to resolve this issue. Thank you for your patience.

None of these are working! Still have @ username on profile page. 🙁

You are right the css override does not work sorry. I just remembered how I did this sorry, try this function to turn off mentions:

// remove buddypress mentions
add_filter( 'bp_activity_do_mentions', '__return_false' );

Try Adding it to your theme functions file or a custom plugin.

Removed

if ( bp_is_active( ‘activity’ ) && bp_activity_do_mentions() ) : ?>
<span class=”user-nicename”>@<?php bp_displayed_user_mentionname(); ?></span>
endif;

from

bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/members-header.php:28)

THAT DIDN’T WORK EITHER!