Change Display name for comments

  • chipped

    (@chipped)


    11 years ago

    Hi guys,

    I’m setting up a book club for our School and I want to change it so that when people comment it only shows a First name, regardless of whats in their profile.

    For instance, if we have a student with First name: jane, Last name: smith, user name: jsmith90″ in their profile, it should only show “jane” when she comments.

    How can this be done?

    I thought about changing the registration to not ask for a last name (we use Ultimate Member plugin) but we want to be able to see their full name in the backend.

    If it helps, the site is http://endeavoursportshighbookclub.com.au/

    Thanks.

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  • Mike

    (@mike_vl)

    11 years ago

    Hi, could you add a comment on your site (so we can see what the code looks like?)

    Mike

    (@mike_vl)

    11 years ago

    An easy way would be to change the display name in account setting to first name. Would that do?

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    11 years ago

    you could create a child theme with a functions.php file which should contain a function glades_list_comments($comment, $args, $depth) { from a copy of the same function from the parent theme where this line is edited to add just the first name of the comment author:
    <?php printf(__('<span class="fn">%s</span>', 'glades'), get_comment_author_link()) ?>

    for example:

    <?php
	$url    = get_comment_author_url( $comment->comment_ID );
	$author = ( $comment->user_id && get_the_author_meta( 'first_name', $comment->user_id ) ? get_the_author_meta( 'first_name', $comment->user_id ) : 'anonymous' );

	if ( empty( $url ) || 'http://' == $url )
		$author_link = $author;
	else
		$author_link = "<a href='$url' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>$author</a>";
printf(__('<span class="fn">%s</span>', 'glades'), $author_link) ?>

    for further details, please post in your theme’s forum at https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/theme/glades#postform

    Thread Starter chipped

    (@chipped)

    11 years ago

    “An easy way would be to change the display name in account setting to first name. Would that do?”

    Yes, that would be fine. How do I change it for all users though?

    What about future users, is there an option I can set and forget of will I have to change each user manually?

    Cheers

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