Email AS Username & Nickname AS Publicname

Hello Denis,
If you want to set the mail address as a user name. just simply use the email field but do not any username field. In this way WordPress will assign the mail to username. And to make the NickName use the Nick Name field in the form and add the following codes in your themes function.php
[php]
function wpufe_set_nick_as_disp_reg( $user_id ) {
if ( isset( $_POST[‘nickname’] ) ) {
wp_update_user( array( ‘ID’ => $user_id, ‘display_name’ => $_POST[‘nickname’] ) );
}
}

add_action( ‘wpuf_update_profile’, ‘wpufe_set_nick_as_disp_reg’ );
[/php]

We had some discussion before on this topic here: http://wedevs.com/support/topic/default-display-name/ You may see the thread for more clarification.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you feel any difficulties. 🙂

Thanks a lot, this helps!

Hey Sekander,
if I only use the Email field, then the email will be splittet before the @ and then stored.

like

meister@denis-online.de becomes just meister

And to getting the display_name from Nickname its this function.

function wpufe_set_nick_as_disp( $user_data ) {
    if ( isset( $_POST['nickname'] ) ) {
        $user_data['display_name'] = $_POST['nickname'];
    }
 
    return $user_data;
}
 
add_filter( 'wpuf_update_profile_vars', 'wpufe_set_nick_as_disp' );

Should I do the same for the username?

Currently its not possible in our plugin system and we don’t have plan to do such.