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

Matt Martz

Michael Torbert

<p>Replaces the username for author permalinks with the users display name.  Returns a 404 if the author permalink using the actual username is used.</p>
<p>Allows authors to select what to display in the URL for their author permalink by use of the users display name.  Increments a counter on the end of duplicate display names to make them unique.</p>
<h3>Upgrade</h3>
<ol>
<li>Use the plugin updater in WordPress or…</li>
<li>Delete the previous <code>display-name-author-permalink</code> folder from the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
<li>Upload the new <code>display-name-author-permalink</code> folder to the <code>/wp-content/plugins/</code> directory</li>
</ol>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate.</li>
</ol>


Display Name Author Permalink

Replaces the username for author permalinks with the users display name.  Returns a 404 if the author permalink using the actual username is used.

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