[rkudeshi]

I am trying to transition from an Invision Power Board-hosted forum to a BBPress version, but need a few features to ensure all features are kept in the new version.

Basically, I want people to be able to add more information to their profile information. Occupation and location aren’t relevant to me, but other things (its for a college discussion forum, so year and major are more helpful) would be.

It’s a bit of a tangent, but I also would like to have one of the added fields (Real Name) be the primary name displayed in threads, but I figure that’s another project for another day — alternatively, is there a plugin to allow individuals to change their display name?

Thanks so much for your help everyone!

[chrishajer]

There is a “Use Display Name” plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/display-name/

There was also a “Custom Profile Fields” plugin, but I don’t know if it still works or is being maintained:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-allow-additional-or-custom-profile-fields

[rkudeshi]

Thanks for the pointer to the “Custom Profile Fields” plugin, never saw it before.

As for the “Use Display Name” plugin, I think that only works on a WordPress-integrated install, and I’m trying to get it to work on a BBPress only site. Any ideas?