[intellivision]

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.

[_ck_]

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.