Hello All,
I am looking for a way to disable users from changing their names from within the bbpress interface (/profile/edit/group/1/). This is located on the page where they choose a forum signature. I do not mind if they have a forum signature. However, I would like to prevent them form changing their name.

The site is currently running wordpress 3.5.1, buddy press 2.2.3 and is on a local test machine.

I did some searching on google and the on this site and was unable to find an answer to this question. If I missed it please let me know and my apologies in advance if this in the wrong area.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Regards,
Chevman

[@chevymanusa Participant 12 years ago]

So far, I have came across these posts:

Displayname check

I want to completely forbid changing the "display_name"

How to disable DISPLAY_NAME edit for Subscriber Profile

And a couple of threads that reference disable display name plugin, however the link is dead.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/disable-display-name/

Most of what I have come across is over three years old. Is this problem/issue easy to solve? or already solved. And I am just looking in all the wrong places?

Thank you in advance for the help.
Kind Regards,
Chevyman

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years ago]

Have you looked in the WordPress Plugin Directory for something to do what you are after?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

bbPress uses WordPress to maintain/manage users and usernames etc so there might just be something that suits your needs. I am not sure if any would be compatible with the bbPress front end profile editor but it might be worth a shot. (eg https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/chevymanusa/edit/ )

[@chevymanusa Participant 12 years ago]

I have looked around. Profile builder (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/profile-builder/) will allow me to do what I want, but I have to redirect the page or something to that extend. I was looking for a way to just to allow users to change their signature and not their display name.

Still hoping, someone somewhere has an answer to this and they will post here shortly.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll keep looking.

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years ago]

Standard bbPress & WordPress do NOT support ‘signatures’ in the user profiles.

What are you using for bbPress signatures?

[@chevymanusa Participant 12 years ago]

Oops… Looks like I got my BP’s confused again. I should have been posting this in regards to buddy press and not bbpress. My apologies for getting the two mixed up.

Unless you have the power to move this over to buddy press, you can go ahead and mark this resolved/closed.

[@netweb Keymaster 12 years ago]

Haha… We don’t have that power yet 😉

[@chevymanusa Participant 12 years ago]

Thank you for your replies and help. My apologies again for getting the two confused.