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• Started 4 years ago by intellivision
• Latest reply from _ck_
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How to have topic_author() show "display_name"?

1. • 
   • intellivision
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   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.
2. • 
   • _ck_
   • Moderator

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   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.

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