Title: Wrong user name
Last modified: June 15, 2023

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# Wrong user name

 *  [Ries](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ries234/)
 * (@ries234)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-user-name-3/)
 * It seems a user with an ‘inactive’ account was making changes to the site. Upon
   investigation in the revisions section of a page I learned that it was in fact
   an active user who made the change. For some reason the wrong user was shown 
   in the admin list.

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 *  Plugin Author [apasionados](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apasionados/)
 * (@apasionados)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-user-name-3/#post-16822502)
 * Hi [@ries234](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ries234/),
 * The plugin gets the information from the WordPress function `get_the_modified_author()`(
   more info here: [get_the_modified_author()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_modified_author/)).
 * We show the information of this function. And this function show the display 
   name of the last user: `$last_user->display_name`. Can you check what the user
   that made the modifications has configured as display_name and see if this has
   something to do with the username shown?
 * Unfortunately we can’t reproduce your problem on our side to try to debug it.
 * Best regards from Spain.

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 * Last reply from: [apasionados](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apasionados/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-user-name-3/#post-16822502)
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