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On sign up – Username (required) is there a way to change that text to Fullname

  • @minglonaire

    Participant

    9 years, 7 months ago

    This whole username, name system in Buddypress is weird, but it is what it is.
    Is there a way to change this text in account details on registration from,

    Username (required)
    to
    Fullname (required)

    Thanks

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  • @henrywright

    Moderator

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hi @minglonaire

    This whole username, name system in Buddypress is weird

    What do you think is weird about it?

    @minglonaire

    Participant

    9 years, 7 months ago

    username is required, users cant change it.
    Its a one field entry, so people tend to enter a nickname.

    Usually its first name, last name.

    So now, everyone has username and then either a full name field or first and last name fields, so either 2 or 3 fields related to names… and then its weird, people ask why multiple fields for related entry

    @henrywright

    Moderator

    9 years, 7 months ago

    The username serves multiple purposes:

    1. It’s needed internally for use in URLs etc. First name and surname won’t play nicely in this context because you can’t have spaces etc in URLs.
    2. It’s used as a ‘friendly’ unique identifier. What happens when you have 2 members named John Smith? How do you private message the first John Smith without private messaging the second?
    3. There are probably more purposes I’m missing?

    @minglonaire

    Participant

    9 years, 7 months ago

    That should not be an issue whatsoever with 2 John Smiths, two should should up and you click on whichever one you want. Most people I know actually deactivate the activity system. When they message the private message by clicking on profile, most communities are not the type everyone knows everyone, its actually the other way around, those types are in minority and buddypress seems to cater to them.

    Its actually a very simple solution, implement an option, with username and another one first and last name.

    @henrywright

    Moderator

    9 years, 7 months ago

    That should not be an issue whatsoever with 2 John Smiths, two should should up and you click on whichever one you want

    That doesn’t solve the problem with URLs. How can you get first/last name cleanly into a URL?

    example.com/members/john%20smith

    or with some string replacement:

    example.com/members/john-smith

    but what about John Smith 2 or John Smith 3? You’ll need to append something to the URL

    example.com/members/john-smith2
example.com/members/john-smith3

    That doesn’t look great and John Smith has no choice in what gets appended.

    My personal opinion is usernames are there for a reason and that’s to uniquely identify members in a ‘pretty’ manner (instead of by user ID for example).

    @minglonaire

    Participant

    9 years, 7 months ago

    99% of people out there care about end functionality more than URLs, how does facebook solve it, -1-2 -3 is fine, and you can look at pictures if there are few with same name. Buddypress is a great product, no doubt about it, but it seems to cater to family style community where everyone knows each other, which probably explains lack of a basic function of blocking another member for example.

    I am not the only one who complains about usernames, if you go back on these boards people have been talking about inconvenience of this system for a long time. The same goes for avatars, I dont care what some of the guys here tell me, you need at least an option to have avatar upload on registration.

    @danbp

    Participant

    9 years, 7 months ago

    @minglonaire,

    i’m part of the one percenter who cares about well formed urls and a basic system which is working on 23% of www’s sites !

    If you have enhancement ideas, feel free to post in the appropriate forum or open a ticket on Trac.

    BP is only a WP plugin and doesn’t handle registration. On the other hand, WP use a very short registering form, containing 3 fields: username, email and password.

    First and last name are optionnal fields on the standard WP user profile. These fields are not mandatory, never appear on the registration page and it’s in the freedom of everyone to use them or not. When BP is installed, he provides a mandatory Name field, which can be used to enter a username or a first/last name.

    Even if i have no percentage to give you, i’m pretty sure that almost all users are satisfied to use a CMS which doesn’t ask them for real names at first ! And why not their address, blood group, gran’mother nickname or their mom’s phone number ?

    This are privacy options, and WP is smart enough to not abuse of such things, by default. Smart enough also to use the simpliest existing register routine, like all other major web operators, a username, a valid email and an encrypted password.

    Anything else is matter of flexibility, one of the major interrest to use BuddyPress. And definetly no, not all communities have members who knows each others. Don’t make you the spokeman of such behalf speculation. 😉

    I think you’re confused by system requirements and your own desires. To get it clear for the register aspect, read here please.

    Oh, and the answer to your question is here:

    Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

    @minglonaire

    Participant

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Let me re-emphasize that Buddypress is awesome, but because its so awesome these little things which I would take for granted, simply stand out, at least to me an end user.

    Perhaps our perspectives are different and you guys are looking at it from coding standpoint, I do not, Im the end user and I am comparing buddypress to everything else out there.

    The only sites using just username are dating sites and perhaps some forum sites, sites where specifically people do not want to reveal their identities. If someone is running that type of a site than there are no issues.

    However, if I want a full name, I need at least two fields, username and then something for the full name, and ideally 3 fields, username/first name/last name, and that is weird, out of hundreds of sites I have signed up for I have never had to enter a username and name, that simply makes no sense for someone signing up, its confusing. For you guys who deal with buddypress for years perhaps its normal, but its not when you look around at everything else.

    Another thing is the avatar upload,again I dont think I ever encountered another site where I wasnt able to upload an avatar on registration. It may make sense from coding stand point or something else, from end user standpoint it makes no sense.

    Just my 2 cents, I love buddpress and thanks for your help as always.

    @danbp

    Participant

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Have you tested this plugin ?
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-upload-avatar-ajax/

    @minglonaire

    Participant

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Yes I did, it does not work on mobile unfortunately.

    Also, links to author and other associated with this plugin lead to “spam” type of sites which do not give me much confidence in using it.

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