mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)

Require first and last name from users who are editing their profiles.
The HTML5 <code>required</code> attribute is added, the text “(required)” is added next to the fields, and the data is verified to be non-empty on save.
Development of this plugin was supported by the <a href="http://globalshakespeares.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Massachusetts Institute of Technology Shakespeare Project</a>.

Require First and Last Name

Require first and last name from users who are editing their profiles.

If you need to implement a custom post type for human beings, where in lieu of a title you need a name, this plugin will add the proper UI. See screenshots for an example.
<h4>Usage</h4>
When creating your custom post type, just make sure you specify <code>name</code> as one of the post type’s features. (As of version 0.1, the <code>title</code> feature, quite counterintuitively, is also required as in the example below.)
<pre><code>register_post_type( 'people', array( 'label' => 'People', 'supports' => array( 'title', 'name', ... ) ... ) ); </code></pre>
Name Support also gives you the template tags <code>the_name()</code> and <code>get_the_name()</code> which prints or returns the name in “[First Name] [Last Name]” format.
Development of this plugin was supported by the <a href="http://arts.mit.edu/" rel="nofollow ugc">Arts at MIT</a>.

Name Support

Infrastructure plugin which adds UI support for custom post types with names instead of titles, e.g. "person" custom post types.

Require First and Last Name vs Name Support