Title: Display name Problem
Last modified: July 5, 2017

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# Display name Problem

 *  [Elia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prettyboyelias/)
 * (@prettyboyelias)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-name-problem/)
 * Hi there,
 * VERSION 2.8
    I used to have the 2.8 version of the Woocommerce for a long time.
   When a user bought something on my website the system automatically created the
   buddypress account for such user.
 * And she had just the real “Name” in her public profile page.
 * VERSION 3.0.8
    A few days ago I updated to the version 3.0.8 of the WooCommerce.
   And as a result every BuddyPress account started to have their real Name and 
   Surname in the profile. So I started to worry about the privacy, since I don’t
   want to leak their Surname publicly.
 * I found out that this is the actual problem:
    [https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/15020](https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/15020)
 * VERSION 3.1.0
    After the update to the latest version of the Woocommerce now 
   every new user has just “Nickname” in their profile page.
 * Is there a way to show only name for every user? No nickname. Just the real name
   as it was in the version 2.8.
 * Please help me

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 *  [Mariusz Szatkowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/motylanogha/)
 * (@motylanogha)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-name-problem/#post-9291542)
 * Hi,
    I think that you may modify your theme with child theme function fetching
   the user_firstname from get_currentuserinfo function ([https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_currentuserinfo)).
   Here you will find an example how to change displayed user name so you can use
   this hint in your theme. You’d be able to customize the user names in the way
   you want instead of waiting for a fix on the next issue of BuddyPress or WooCommerce.
 * I hope that will help.
    M
 *  Thread Starter [Elia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prettyboyelias/)
 * (@prettyboyelias)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-name-problem/#post-9294650)
 * Mariusz, thank you for you help,
 * I’ve read the article but I’m not sure exactly how to change that.
 * Do you have any specific steps or topics for this?
 * I found this topic [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9326315/wordpress-change-default-display-name-publicy-as-for-all-existing-users](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9326315/wordpress-change-default-display-name-publicy-as-for-all-existing-users)
 * It’s working, but not as I need. It changes the nickname only after the user 
   login. And I need changing this by default.
 *  [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcrabill/)
 * (@dcrabill)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-name-problem/#post-9610332)
 * Here’s the solution for using the customer’s real name and allowing them to change
   it: [https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/16015#issuecomment-338519085](https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/16015#issuecomment-338519085)

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 * Last reply from: [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcrabill/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-name-problem/#post-9610332)
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