Subscriber registration first_name – last_name

Hello,

I am setting up your plugin for my website, but I have a problem with something as simple as the subscriber’s name. The plugin supports using first name and last name (templates, add new contact, import/export, database). This is fine!

the registration form, however, only supports ‘name’. The plugin then does the split up of the name itself: everything before the first space becomes the first name and everything after that becomes the last name (your function prepare_first_name_last_name() in class-es-common.php).

That works all right for John le Carré, but Arthur Conan Doyle should really be addressed as ‘Mr. Doyle’ and not ‘Mr. Conan Doyle’. Also, for many people (East Asia, certain European countries) it is not uncommon to write their last name before the first name, resulting in a mix-up by your software.

In short: It would be very useful to be able to specify first name and last name separately in your registration form — and because it is already supported by everything in your software except the registration form, it cannot be complicated to realize this, right? Please consider.

Or am I overlooking something and can I somehow handle this myself (without hacking your code)?