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Show Displayname and Username together in comments

@notpoppy

Participant

12 years, 11 months ago

When a user comments on my (Buddypress-enabled) blog, the comment appears under their Displayname.

However if a user wishes to reply to them using an @-message, they need to know their Username, and this isn’t always immediately obvious. Consequently, I get a lot of users typing in the Username incorrectly, or just typing the Displayname prefixed by an @ symbol.

What I’d like to do is show both the Displayname and Username next to each comment, e.g.:

Ben (@bensmith101)

I’ve had a look in the code for comments.php and coding this seems some way beyond my abilities! Can anyone suggest how to do this?

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@wceolin

Member

12 years, 11 months ago

If you use default BP theme just replace that line after class=”comment-meta” to:

http://pastebin.com/LMbh4mwQ

However, I don’t know how to do same with group forums. Any ideas?

@notpoppy

Participant

12 years, 11 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion @wceolin

I found the following in functions.php which seems to be the code I need to replace:

`

<?php
/* translators: 1: comment author url, 2: comment author name, 3: comment permalink, 4: comment date/timestamp*/
printf( __( ‘%2$s said on %4$s‘, ‘buddypress’ ), get_comment_author_url(), get_comment_author(), get_comment_link(), get_comment_date() );
?>

`

I don’t know how to replace the code in functions.php – I’m happy to look up how to do that, but before I do I just wanted to check this is definitely the code I need to replace and I’m not barking up the wrong tree!

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