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  • peter-hamilton
    Participant

    @peter-hamilton

    Hi

    I am having trouble finding a way to make every user/member have a unique name.

    Right now anybody could use the same name.

    Cheers
    P.H.

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  • Robin W
    Moderator

    @robin-w

    are you using automatic registration?

    If so wordpress should prevent duplicate usernames.

    or maybe you using a membership plugin that overrides this?


    peter-hamilton
    Participant

    @peter-hamilton

    Been a while, spent quite a lot of time looking for a solution for the “name” issue.

    Wordpress registration checks if a “username” is already used, this is great.

    Buddypress is the problem cause they also add a “Name” field to registration, and this can be duplicate creating issues when multiple John Doe’s appear in my forums and activity.

    Solution

    I created a dirty solution by changing the label for (buddypress) Name to Username, and added a line of text urging new members to fill in the exact same name as the did in the “Username” field.

    Although people can type whatever they want there, I hope most will just copy the first name.

    This way the @name and username should be similar on all pages.

    Then I also removed the option to change this name in the profile edit.php through CSS so no longer can people change their nicknames.
    Unless a code savvy member goes to change the CSS in chrome, then the box will appear and they can change their names.

    Wishlist

    A solution/function where Buddypress or BBpress copies the username and adds that in the nickname field by default.

    Anyway, here is a link to my current register page:

    BBFacelook registration page

    P.H.

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