How to display the user’s first name instead of username when logged in

Hi @stephunique

Thanks for writing in,

Do you want to show the first name on the UR My Account page or the Buddypress’s?

Regards!

Hello,

I have figured out what the problem is, but I have not figured out a solution, and I dn’t think it is entirely due to User Registration, so I might close this thread. But I will show you what I wanted anyway.

I wanted to show the user’s first name on all the pages, whether Buddypress or User Registration or any other page.

You can see the screenshots here:

https://ibb.co/vmZPMC9

https://ibb.co/26scyXq

https://ibb.co/TmY3w5T

I created a test user and named their fields after the name of the field label, ie for the “name” field I put “Name”, “Surname” for the surname, and “Username” for the username field. You can see in one of the screenshots the actual name is displayed in the top right corner and in the other, the username is displayed and this changes depending on the page visited.

But I have just now figured out this is likely to be because of the different theme I am usng, since I am using two different themes for different pages on the same website so I am sure it is not related to User Registration.

Thanks

Hello again,

I have installed User Registration on a new website I am testing and have a similar question so I thought I would re-open this thread rather than create a new one.

I have have installed User Registration on a new website, where users register and sign up with User Registration’s forms on the front end (eg Subscribers). But, when they log in, their name is not displayed anywhere. I would like to display their name on the screen when they log in, not only on User Registration’s account pages, but all the pages. Is that possible? For example, another plugin I tested has shortcodes. You can add the shortcode to a menu link, and it would display the user’s name on all the pages that have a menu. Is there something similar in User Registration?

Thank you

Hi @stephunique,

We have method to show the username on the Primary Menu of your site. For this, please refer to the documentation in the link below.

https://docs.wpuserregistration.com/docs/custom-code-snippets/#29-toc-title

For showing the Name, you can modify the code accordingly.

Regards!

Hello,

Thank you for the reply. I want to check I did it properly. Can you tell me where the username or name is supposed to appear after I use the code? I followed the instructions here to get the log in URL: https://docs.wpuserregistration.com/docs/how-to-show-login-form/

As it says, the log in URL is the URL of the page where you pasted the shortcode

 [user_registration_my_account

For me, it is mysite(.)com/my-account-ur/

I pasted the entire URL including the HTTPS but the name and username still did not show up on the front end anywhere that I could see.

Thank you

Hi @stephunique

Sorry for the late response. It should appear on the Primary Menu of your site as per the given code. Would you please check that?

Regards!

Hi @stephunique ,

Since we haven’t heard from you in a while, I’m going to go ahead and conclude this thread for now. However, if you have any further questions or if there’s anything else we can assist you with, please feel free to continue the conversation.

Regards!