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I am testing out Buddypress Version 12.5.0 and I made a registration form with Buddypress’ profile fields as well as a third party plugin “User Registration” by WPEverest. I tested both separately and noticed that Buddypress registration form does not collect the surname of the user, only the first name, because there is no field for surnames. I made a separate text box field and named it “surname” but obviously it does not connect to actual surname field in the buddypress and wordpress back end.

User Registration has an actual surname field and can collect the user’s surname which shows up correctly in the back end, but it displays the user’s username as the name when the person logs in. For example if a person’s name is “Jane Doe” but their username is “gelato”, in the top right corner when they log in it says “gelato” which is not good, so I can’t use this.

So I am wondering if anyone has a way to force the Buddypress registration form to collect the surname correctly so it shows in the backend?

Thanks