Title: Username Shortcode
Last modified: February 24, 2017

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# Username Shortcode

 *  Resolved [dvhirst865](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvhirst865/)
 * (@dvhirst865)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-shortcode-2/)
 * Hello Jack,
 * Your plugin is very useful and comes close to what I need to do. An additional
   shortcode would get me there. I need to acknowledge new registrants to my website
   after they provide the minimum information to create an account: username, email
   address, and password. Your plugin provides shortcodes for email address and 
   password reset, but does not provide a shortcode for the username, rather, you
   provide shortcodes for first_name and last_name / family_name. Unfortunately,
   I don’t have this information at the time I need to send my acknowledgement. 
   Please provide a shortcode for [username] or [login_id], that would do the job
   very nicely. Thanks.

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 *  Plugin Author [Jack – BNFW](https://wordpress.org/support/users/voltronik/)
 * (@voltronik)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-shortcode-2/#post-8845489)
 * Hi [@dvhirst865](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvhirst865/),
    Thanks for
   your message.
 * I’ll see what I can do to add this functionality in as a global shortcode.
 * Thanks,
    Jack
 *  Thread Starter [dvhirst865](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvhirst865/)
 * (@dvhirst865)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-shortcode-2/#post-8854091)
 * Thanks, I’m eager to see the update. Glad to see this marked resolved!
 * Don
 *  [marijn1887](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marijn1887/)
 * (@marijn1887)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-shortcode-2/#post-8861018)
 * I would love to see this update as well. Actually I’m quite surprised this shortcode
   isn’t already available..
 *  [onefix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onefix/)
 * (@onefix)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-shortcode-2/#post-8861147)
 * I tried many different combinations to show the username and was also very frustrated
   but found that this shortcode worked for me [user_login]
 * Thanks Gavin
 *  Thread Starter [dvhirst865](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvhirst865/)
 * (@dvhirst865)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-shortcode-2/#post-8881934)
 * Thanks, Gavin; it works for me also, and is good enough for now. I’d prefer to
   see a consistent use of shortcode IDs or consistent documentation; so, will wait
   for the next release to review and possibly mark this as closed from my viewpoint.
 * Don

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 * Last reply from: [dvhirst865](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dvhirst865/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-shortcode-2/#post-8881934)
 * Status: resolved