Is possible to display ‘name’ instead of ‘username’?

Maybe @robin-w will chime in with additional input, but as it stands now, the answer is no. bbPress uses the “nicename” which is a URL friendly version of the username. Style Pack currently follows that bbPress default.

What you’re requesting could be added, but there are a TON of places within Style Pack where the change would have to implemented, and all of those places would have to be linked to a new settings option value for choosing which name to use.

There are also other parts of bbPress that new code would have to added to override the nicename for consistency reasons.

With that said, I do see the value in your request, and would like to implement it in the near future….but that may be a little while.

Thank you for the answer.

And would it be possible to show the name instead of the user in the topic index view (‘started by…’)? That is, do not internally modify the management of bbpress with the user, but only show the name corresponding to the user who makes a publication.

Yeah, that’s what I mean by “a TON of places within Style Pack where the change would have to implemented”.

I think the only way to handle it properly is with an option to choose what you want to be displayed: bbP nicename, WP username, WP display name, WP first/last name, WP nickname. Then EVERY PLACE in bbPress and Style Pack follows what you set.

A lot of changes to Style Pack, plus new code for bbPress to make that happen. Not a simple modification we could kick out quickly. It will take some time, but I think it’s a useful/worthwhile change we could do in the future.

bbpress just hooks to what you have set for wordpress.

this is in the first instance ‘display name’ which is what you have set in

dashboard>users>edit user>edit a user>’display name publicly as’

What is set as the default there depends on what is being asked in your registration process.

The default registration process asks for just username and email.

If only this is asked for, then on registration 4 items will be set

user login – which will be username

user nickname – which will be username

user display name – which will be username

User nicename – which will be username

you can then change the nickname and display name in dashboard>users

If you collect first name and last name as some registration plugins allow you to, then you can opt within dashboard>users to change display name to thsese.

After that, you then need additional plugins to change what is shown. for instance :

[WordPress Plugin] How to Change Default “Display Name Publicly As” for WordPress Users (memberfix.rocks)

or

Force First and Last Name as Display Name – WordPress plugin | www.ads-software.com

having written all that, I am not clear what you mean by ‘name’ instead of username – can you give an example of the difference for your site

I want to apologize to all of you and thank you for your help and collaboration.
The truth is that the problem was that I did not know that WordPress (and therefore bbpress) uses the “Display Name Publicly As” field to show him as the author of the publications. It is an error due to my ignorance.
Thanks to your clarifications and after reviewing the plugins suggested by Robin, I have been able to install the “Display Name Publicly As” plugin and correctly configure how bbpress displays the author of the content.

Thanks a lot again for everything.

no apology needed – happy to help ??

I want to apologize to @se9wv22 – My own ignorance regarding bbPress already following the WP display-name-as setting escalated it. I was basically thinking that we had to alter code for what WP already does. Truthfully, I’ve never used anything other than usernames in bbPress, so I lacked that knowledge. Big thanks to @robin-w for clearing this up!