Title: Name on comment thread
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Name on comment thread

 *  [Arrie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arrie/)
 * (@arrie)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/name-on-comment-thread/)
 * I have a pen name for my blog, however, my username appears when I make comments
   even though I have selected to use my pen name. How do I change this?

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/name-on-comment-thread/#post-2064345)
 * In your profile, you should have a “Display Name Publicly As” select box. Am 
   I understanding you correctly that you have your pen name selected in that field
   but it isn’t being used?
 * If that is the case, the problem is most likely in your theme. You will need 
   to track down the code that displays the comments and change it. Does your theme
   have a comments.php? If so, look for `wp_list_comments()`. Does `wp_list_comments()`
   have a ‘callback’ parameter?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/name-on-comment-thread/#post-2064345)
 * Status: not resolved

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