Replace name for previously registered users

Hi Javier,

Yes, that is a limitation of this plugin. Since the “Name” field can contain anything, it’s hard to know what people have filled it out with. There’s not much that can be done except to ask people to complete their profiles.

Cheers, Christian

Hi Christian,

So, is that limitation related to the registration process?
I’m asking because I did register those users via wp-admin/users.php and I didn’t miss last name field. Isn’t your plugin supposed to get the value from wp_usermeta db table (‘last_name’ meta key)?

Thank you,
Javier

P.S:

Sorry, I forgot to mention that is the last name what is not being displayed. That’s why I mentioned the last_name value in wp_usermeta: it was stored from the beggining, as I registered the users accurately.

Thank you for your time ??

Does the sync happen properly when a user is updated in WordPress admin? If this plugin was activated after a user was created, then it hasn’t had a chance to sync before.

Yes, works properly after that. I thought it would get the last name value from database and then display/append to the first name or something like that.

I’ll see if I can batch the update of my 200 users somehow.

Thanks for your time and work. Great plugin!

I’ll see if I can batch the update of my 200 users somehow.

In the absence of an admin screen for this plugin to do an initial sync, that’s your best option. You can do that by choosing one of the roles at the top of the user list and “changing” their role to be the same as it already is.

Thanks for the help, Christian. Unfortunately that didn’t the trick (at least in my local copy of the site). I don’t know if this has something to do with the fact that my users have no activity yet (we want them in the platform before we launch).

Dammit, you’re right. Sorry, I assumed that would trigger an update. You’ll have to write a little script that calls wp_update_user() on all your users instead.

No problem, I really appreciate your help ??