Jason Coleman

Paid Memberships Pro

Andrew Lima

Kim Coleman

<p>This plugin hides the “Display Name” field on the Edit Profile screen for all users. Instead of allowing users to set this field, the plugin will always set the User field display_name to their first and last name. If these field are empty, display_name will be set to their username.</p>
<p>Display names are set when the user registers as well as when a user’s profile is updated via the WordPress admin.</p>
<p>The plugin includes a batch process to update the display name for existing users. Navigate to Settings > Force First Last in the WordPress admin to run the update.</p>


Force First and Last Name as Display Name

Thank you for this simple and effective solution. It is something that should be part of WordPress by default.
Cheers

Simple and effective

Force the user field "display_name" to be set as the user's first and last name.

grosbouff

<p>BuddyPress Real Names allows you to change the regular nickname displayed for a user to anything you want,<br />
for example for displaying something like “John Smith”, “Smith John Mr”, “jsmith44 (John Smith)”, or any other combination of xprofile fields.</p>
<p>You can set rules to display names differently on their profile pages or in the members lists (eg. “John Smith” on the profile and “Smith John, Mr” in the lists).<br />
When ordering members lists alphabetically, you can choose the priority of the fields that will be sorted !</p>
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<p>= 0.3.4 =<br />
* Update rule by clicking list items (jquery)</p>
<h4>0.3.3</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added function ‘bprn_get_profile_field_value’ </li>
</ul>
<h4>0.3.0</h4>
<ul>
<li>Totally rewritten for BP 1.7.</li>
<li>Ordering members alphabetically with custom settings now works !</li>
</ul>


BuddyPress Real Names

BuddyPress Real Names allows you to change the regular nickname displayed for a user to anything you want.

Force First and Last Name as Display Name vs BuddyPress Real Names