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The mod is pretty simple, but I need to look up what files I modified. I’ll post how I did it tomorrow, but it’s really easy and should take less than five minutes to do.

The basics of what I did was edit bp-xprofile.php and removed these lines:

$sql[] = “INSERT INTO “. $bp . ” (

id, group_id, parent_id, type, name, description, is_required, field_order, option_order, order_by, is_public, can_delete

) VALUES (

1, 1, 0, ‘textbox’, ‘” . __( ‘Public Display Name’, ‘buddypress’) . “‘, ”, 1, 1, 0, ”, 1, 0

);”;

$sql[] = “INSERT INTO “. $bp . ” (

id, group_id, parent_id, type, name, description, is_required, field_order, option_order, order_by, is_public, can_delete

) VALUES (

2, 1, 0, ‘textbox’, ‘” . __( ‘Last Name’, ‘buddypress’) . “‘, ”, 1, 2, 0, ”, 1, 0

);”;

Then I went into my database and deleted those fields. Once those are gone BP defaults to using the username.

If you just want it to be optional you can simply modify the code detailed above to make First and Last name optional instead of required or just delete that code as I said then add new fields from the admin for first name and last name.

For my site, I removed the code above then made a new field simply called “Name” that was option so users could share their name if they wanted to, but their username is still used around the site.

The last thing I asked was pretty simple to answer if you know it. So could someone help please?

Yeah, with the latest revision I just changed the title from “Full Name” to “Display Name” and this hack isn’t needed any longer.