user name displayed, despite setting

  • Hi,

    First of all, thank you for your plug in! It worked fine until a while ago. I migrated the server to a new host and also changed a few plug ins, maybe that’s helpful to know.

    I have made the setting that the author name structure is the nickname. For some reason, some users on our Buddyboss platform have their username (mostly an email address) displayed in comments all of a sudden.
    Their profile shows their correct nickname as the username though. The strange thing is that it only happens for some of the users. When I change their nickname back in the WordPress backend, it switches back to display the username in the frontend. Sometime immediately and sometimes when they log in the next time.

    Any ideas what could be the reason for that?

    Thanks you!

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 7 months ago by aiyanna777.
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  • Plugin Author Brandon Allen

    (@thebrandonallen)

    This is because BuddyPress isn’t support by this plugin, at this time. Due to the way BuddyPress generates content with at-mentions, if you change the author slug (user_nicename) for a user, it will break the at-mention generation.

    To fix this, you’ll need to run a find and replace on BuddyPress tables to change old author slugs to the new author slugs. Most of the content that needs to be changed will be in the {wpdb->prefix}_bp_activity table.

    It’s on my agenda to fix one of these days, but I don’t know when that will happen.

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