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How to force identical username and profile name?

howtomakeWP
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@whatthe

14 years, 4 months ago

Hi, I’d like to a single user name and single profile name. From looking around, I think the easiest way to do this is to set profile name to username at registration, and to disable the ability to change profile names. However, I am not figuring out how to do this looking at source (yet), if someone can help that would be really great. Cheers.

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nit3watch
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@nit3watch

14 years, 4 months ago

There’s a plugin for this already, try searching the plugins next time.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/buddypress-usernames-only/

howtomakeWP
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@whatthe

14 years, 4 months ago

I’ve actually read the thread with that plugin and have looked at the source code, and I think the steps I laid out are way easier to implement and update (for when buddypress code changes), and very minimalist – I try to avoid things that fiddle with a bit of everything. Thanks for the suggestion though.

howtomakeWP
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@whatthe

14 years, 4 months ago

I found how to restrict name changes here: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/disable-name-change-in-profile/ , but am still having difficulty learning how to populate the the name with the entered username.
In populating it correctly I think I would use something like if (bp_the_profile_group() == “1”), but now i need to assign username to name.

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