any reason? I figured out how to put the login name in their profile and in bbpress
But login name is not the same as display name? Like in my case as an admin, my login name is admin. My display name is visible around the site, but not in the link title, which sucks.
pxlgirl.
I usually reserve the admin account for administrative duties, and create a second admin account for myself for this very reason, and for the security of keeping the main admin account less exposed.
The problem also comes with display names including non URL safe chars, spaces, etc… You’d have to run the display name through a bunch of filters and then replace the loggedin_user->domain and displayed_user->domain with your result.
You can also rename the admin account, but that’s not as straightforward as just renaming the wp_users record.
I think John’s idea is the best solution for now. I’ll do it that way. 
pxlgirl.
Oh, in 1.1 the nice_name value should be used in URLs across the site, so that’s another way of changing it.
I have bp 1.1.2 and my URL across the site is still »admin«. I can’t change it…
@pxlgirl what did you do?
@joernroeder – create a new account with the username you want to be visible, and put all your personal stuff in there
@karin – ok, admin is the exception… thanks.
