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Note that you will have to have “Enable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing” checked in order for the function I provided to work.

Also, “WP offers the ability to set the display_name to any of the other names (nickname, first name last name, username, and more)”, yes that’s true, but when your preference is saved, the value you chose is c…[Read more]

Yeah. To make in even more confusing WP offers the ability to set the display_name to any of the other names (nickname, first name last name, username, and more) – I think it is username by default. Well I’ve learned something about WP’s and BP’s use of names, so maybe that will help me figure out what is going wrong with the xprofile function you…[Read more]

Sorry, it’s not the BP nickname field. That’s actually a WP user meta field.

Other things that appear to be true:
• BP uses WP’s “Display Name” to label the user in activity items and elsewhere.
• WP’s ‘nickname’ meta is required but not used widely?

So it seems like the key field for display in BP, bbPress and WP is WP’s “display name” field…[Read more]

@dcavins, when I say I removed the xprofile_sync function, that was part of your suggested code. More precisely, I removed the function from the action and then added your revised function. I guess that should not prevent the forum name from being set and yet it apparently does. Well, your bullet items are good info, especially that first one. I…[Read more]

Hi Tom-

It sounds like you have a lot of balls in the air. For instance:

Remember, I have removed the original xprofile_sync function.

Honestly, I can’t know enough about your setup to tell you anything for sure. What I can tell you is this:

• bbPress uses WordPress’s “Display Name” field, not a BuddyPress field.
• BuddyPress only updates the…[Read more]

Hi @dcavins. Just @mentioning you in case you’re not subscribed. I think you code can work for me if we can just get the Forum name back to being savable.

After looking at the original function in the link you posted, I’m guessing that updating the nickname with $fullname is not wrong, but it doesn’t seem to be working. I notice that this…[Read more]