long story short

I have integrated wordpress with my community. As my community uses the members EMAIL as the login, I have hacked wordpress to do the same. (when a member signs up on my custom user db table, a trigger updates the wordpress wp_users table, setting BOTH email and user_login to the email address of the new member)

now I have implemented bbpress. My bbpress uses the wp_users table as well, all is fine.

to my dissapointment, bbpress displays user_login values on the forum instead of user_nicename.

I do not want to dispay user_login (because it is the email address of my members). [ I have commented out the bbpress function which forces bbpress user_logins to not contain @, . and other chars.

Is there a way to easily display user_nicename instead of user_login. If not is there an easy way to tweak this?

So an obvious second question, have i comprimised security in any manner by commenting out the sanitize function and thereby allowing email adresses as bbpress (and wordpress) “user_login” values?

thanx

[@jamwol Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

anybody? I want to only show the user_nicename field everywhere on bbpress not user_login.

[@jamwol Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

silly me. just download the plugin

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

Which plugin did you use?

[@jamwol Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

display-name.php

[@sambauers Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

user_nicename isn’t what you are after. You want the display_name column. user_nicename in WordPress is a URL safe version of the username. Future versions of bbPress will utilise this field for that purpose too.