How to have topic_author() show "display_name"?

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intellivision
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On front-page.php I'd like the "first poster" column to show the users' display_name (bbPress is synced with WP).

I've tried this

<td class="num"><?php echo(get_author_name(topic_author())); ?></td>

which calls this
```
function get_author_name( $auth_id ) {
	$authordata = get_userdata( $auth_id );
	return $authordata->display_name;
}
```
but it still shows "user_login" which tend to have ugly underscores etc.
Posted 1 year ago #
_ck_
Moderator

You can use str_replace in php to get rid of the underscores or probably find the nicename function in wordpress and filter through that.

Posted 8 months ago #

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