Joy
(@joyously)
That applies to comments, but not to posts.
For a comment, the name and email is saved as text in the comment table.
For a post, the author ID is saved, which is a number that is used to look up the author details in the user table.
The user profile page has a choice for how the name should be displayed publicly, and the theme is supposed to respect that choice. If it isn’t, that is a theme problem. If you didn’t actually change how it should be displayed, you should try that.
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acann
(@acann)
Ah thanks so much for responding! One followup question, the “author ID” is that an internal numeric ID? Or is that perchance the “nicename”? I did change the nicename (I always manually change the nicename in the database so that it is not the same as the username).
Joy
(@joyously)
It’s the author ID in the post table. The option for which to display is on the User profile page. It only shows the names that are available to choose from.
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acann
(@acann)
Thanks for the help, after searching I found that the Genesis theme has a specific setting where you define what will be used for the post meta. In this case, it had been set as a text string (not a variable) which is why it wasn’t updated.
Thanks for the help @joyously