Username Change | DesignWall

Rick Jacobson
asked 9 years ago

Hi, I would like to change the username that is displayed on the questions/answers. Right now it says "username" added 6 hours ago". It is pulling the username from the wordpress database. I would like it to pull the first name. This is because most users user their email address for their username and this opens it up to a privacy issue so I just need to tell it to pull the First name, not the username. How can I do that?

1 Answers

DominicStaff
answered 9 years ago

Hi,
About this issue, you can change in the Dashboard > User > Display name publicly as select-box, you can select the First name or last name that you want to display for user.

Or you can add the following code to the functions.php file:

Sets the user’s display name (always) to first name last name, when it’s avail.

add_action ('admin_head','make_display_name_f_name_last_name');
function make_display_name_f_name_last_name(){

$users = get_users(array('fields'=>'all'));

foreach($users as $user){
    $user = get_userdata($user->ID);    

    $display_name = $user->first_name . " " . $user->last_name;

    if($display_name!=' ') wp_update_user( array ('ID' => $user->ID, 'display_name' => $display_name) );
        else wp_update_user( array ('ID' => $user->ID, 'display_name' => $user->display_login) );

    if($user->display_name == '')
        wp_update_user( array ('ID' => $user->ID, 'display_name' => $user->display_login) );
}
}

Sets the user’s display name (always) to first name, when it’s avail.

add_action ('admin_head','make_display_name_f_name_last_name');
function make_display_name_f_name_last_name(){

$users = get_users(array('fields'=>'all'));

foreach($users as $user){
    $user = get_userdata($user->ID);    

    $display_name = $user->first_name;

    if($display_name!=' ') wp_update_user( array ('ID' => $user->ID, 'display_name' => $display_name) );
        else wp_update_user( array ('ID' => $user->ID, 'display_name' => $user->display_login) );

    if($user->display_name == '')
        wp_update_user( array ('ID' => $user->ID, 'display_name' => $user->display_login) );
}
}

Sets the user’s display name (always) to last name, when it’s avail.

add_action ('admin_head','make_display_name_f_name_last_name');
function make_display_name_f_name_last_name(){

$users = get_users(array('fields'=>'all'));

foreach($users as $user){
    $user = get_userdata($user->ID);    

    $display_name = $user->last_name;

    if($display_name!=' ') wp_update_user( array ('ID' => $user->ID, 'display_name' => $display_name) );
        else wp_update_user( array ('ID' => $user->ID, 'display_name' => $user->display_login) );

    if($user->display_name == '')
        wp_update_user( array ('ID' => $user->ID, 'display_name' => $user->display_login) );
}
}

Hope this helps !