That link should be http://www.rickey-rat.com/members/admin (when I clicked ‘edit’ at the bottom of this page, it took me to the BuddyPress.org root.)
Edit to add – ah, apparently my ‘edit time’ for the op had expired.
Since the member’s user name is ‘admin’, it will show as ‘@admin’.
You can’t change the user name after registration – unless you go directly into the database via a tool like phpmyadmin.
Or use a plugin like:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-renamer-extended/
also – you shouldn’t use ‘admin’ as a user name.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Brute_Force_Attacks#Don.27t_use_the_.27admin.27_username
But the username is and has always been “Antrodius”, the only reference to “admin” has been his role. There is no user or login called “admin”.
Again, I did not create a user called “admin”. The page/url I linked to above was generated by BuddyPress for the user called “Antrodius”, which happens to be the WP admin. I have every setting possible set to display the name as such. If you look at my members page ( http://www.rickey-rat.com/member-grid/) , you can see that even BP acknowledges the username, but instead of using that username in the profile and its URL (like all other users), it shows this user as Admin.
I’m not so concerned about the url as I am about the name displaying at the top. Is there a way to edit the template in my child-theme – I might be able to figure out how to pull the correct username, since it displays properly in some places.
Politely bumping this – perhaps it’s my fault for not articulating the issue well enough in the op, but I don’t feel like this was given any real attention.
I *did* indicate that the username was *not* admin, but was displaying as such. I have every setting I can find set to display it as the actual username, which it does in the forums and on the members list – just not in the profile.
Can someone please help me with this?
Can you test with another theme ? Also are you using some cutom template for profiles, or a plugin or a custom function ?
See if you have this in your template:
<h2 class="user-nicename">@<?php bp_displayed_user_mentionname(); ?></h2>
The original is in bp-templates/bp-legacy/buddypress/members/single/members-header.php
Maybe your theme or custom work is using something other than bp_displayed_user_mentionname();
The display name can be different from the login name.
When “Antrodius” logs in, what name does he use?
Thanks for your time gentlemen.
I activated 2010 and disabled every plugin but BP, BBP and Wordfence. 17 total, about half of which were BP-related. The issue persists.
My members-header.php file is unmodified (it contains the code that @danbp mentioned).
It is worth mentioning again – that the URL for this user profile is http://www.rickey-rat.com/members/admin/ – even though the “nicename” tag displays properly all over the site, it seems to fail in the URL and header.
Also, I’m repeating myself in stating that there is not and has never been a user or login called “admin”. “Antrodius” – fictional as he may be – uses “Antrodius” to log in. He is the WP admin. AGAIN – the only use of “admin” is his role on the site.
So this reveals a more important issue. I know not to use “Admin” as a log-in. Wordfence shows me how many brute-force attempts are made trying that. What this condition is doing is revealing the username of the admin account.
Sadly, I’m not here with an answer, but another manifestation of this same problem.
Am running WordPress with bbpress and BuddyPress, Twentyfourteen theme, everything updated except I’ve not yet gone to BuddyPress 2.3.3.
My login is “Prof L”; so is my user name. To the best of my knowledge I’ve set “admin” nowhere in BuddyPress……but to private message me, “@admin” is required!
Update: OK, I see that in email settings, one of the options reads as follows:
A member mentions you in an update using “@admin”
So somehow that has been set to my “handle” (is that the right BP term?) But again, I never to my knowledge entered “admin”, nor does it display anywhere on the front end of the site.
I will try the plugin mentioned up thread, and report back–but wanted to testify that this problem is real and ongoing….
One more piece of info, in case this helps somebody help me.
I also have entered a user called “Alter Ego”. That user, it turns out, can only be private messaged at “alter-ego”. (To clarify: “Prof L” gets private messages using “admin”: the @ symbol appears to be working normally, for ‘mentions’)
So is this a problem with username formatting? Have I accidentally introduced this problem with these usernames?
Can anyone help.
Since updating, I can’t see any of the extended profile pages, it’s just showing [more] and when I click it nothing happens.
I’m lost
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