Ben May

<p>This plugin prevents imposters from leaving comments on your website with either the same name or email address as a registered user on your site.</p>
<p>This prevents users on the blog from being impersonated.</p>


Duplicate Comment Authors

Prevents people posting comments using the same name as a registered users display name.

Peter Raschendorfer

<p>The Smart Custom Display Name Plugin allows you to set your Display Name to anything you like</p>
<h3>Retired Plugin</h3>
<p>Development, maintenance and support of this plugin has been retired in october 2023. You can use this plugin as long as is works for you.</p>
<p>There will be no more updates and I won’t answer any support questions. Thanks for your understanding.</p>
<p>Feel free to fork this plugin.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>The “Display Name” is the name shown as post author – e.g. “posted by John Doe”. WordPress only allows you to select from a few given values. This plugin changes the Display Name field to a regular text input field where you can type in anything you like. There are no settings. Just install and activate.</p>
<h3>Plugin Privacy Information</h3>
<ul>
<li>This plugin does not set cookies</li>
<li>This plugin does not collect or store any data</li>
<li>This plugin does not send any data to external servers</li>
</ul>


Smart Custom Display Name

Allows you to change the value of "Display name publicly as" in user profiles to any string

Duplicate Comment Authors vs Smart Custom Display Name