Automatically set Display name to users Wordpress nickname

Hi @bb,

WordPress and wpForo have three different names for Users:

• Username (Login) – Being used for forum authorization (login, sign-in) action
• Display Name – Other users and guests see in user profile details and next to user posts (post author name).
• Nickname – Unique name which is used in WordPress and wpForo core to generate user Profile URL. In other words, this is the user slug. For example example.com/community/profile/martin59/.

After a regular user registration process, Username, Display Name and Nickname are set the same. For example, If you register a user with “Martin59” Username your user names look like this:

• Username – Martin59
• Display Name – Martin59
• Nicename – martin59

So wpForo just shows the fields and it gets from Wordpress. The plugin you're using for registration is set the users e-mail address as a nickname and wpForo just shows those emails as a nickname. This should be configured by the registration plugin you're using but not the wpForo side.

I have the same issue. The membership plugin we're using automatically sets the  username as the email address. Could  you at least provide an option to automatically generate a random Nickname so that if a user posts a question or reply before they change it, their email address won't be exposed?

@onescripter

All process of user creating during the registration are being done by WordPress core functions. wpForo only provides a nice registration form and page. So you should search such option in corresponding plugins not in wpForo. there are some plugins which may help you:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-name-security/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/restrict-usernames-emails-characters/

@tomson

The Nickname field being used by wpForo is a native property of Wordpress?

@onescripter, yes it is.