Hi Brovashift,
Let’s see if we can add this as feature request in a next version or if there is any issue with this.
Pascal.
bbPress uses the users username by default, a user can change their own profile to use first/last name if they wish via the “Display name” on the users edit profile screen.
I’m about to add this feature to my style pack !
@netweb On my test site it does firstname/lastname. Am I going mad?
Did I get it backwards? I confused myself when testing this. :/
Can you test this with a new user please and create the appropriate ticket based on the results if needed 🙂
• When a new user is created they *only* have a username
• The user does *not* have a first and last name
• Once a user adds their first and last name the username is still used
• Now, if a user goes to their profile and *chooses* their display name to *use* their first and last name then that is that users *choice*
@netweb
@brovashift
Ok I’ve done some testing.
bbpress uses the display_name as stored in wp_user table.
If you allow registration
ie – Dashboard>settings>membership – anyone can register
then yes, the user_nicename and the display_name in wp_user table are the same and the same as the username entered by the person registering.
If you don’t allow registration, and you add users manually
ie Dashboard>users>add new user
and you don’t enter the first and last name, then the user_nicename and display_name are the same
BUT if you enter the firstname and lastname, then the nice_name is the username, but the display_name is saved as firstname followed by lastname !
So a bit of inconsistency by WordPress.
Now display_name is all that we can play with in bbpress, and users can change their display_name under bbpress in the profile area.
So I plan to put a function in my style pack that will let the user choose what the default display_name is, and optionally disable users from creating a nickname and/or changing the default.
Right, clear as mud then 😉 But this does sound like this is the expected behaviour 🙂
Trivia: bbPress.org theme here shows both @username and “Display Name” because people used to try and ping me via @Stephen Edgar, rather than @netweb, hence we added both to the template loops 🙂
