Title: Force First and Last Name as Display Name
Author: Andrew Lima
Published: <strong>6 September 2013</strong>
Last modified: 18 November 2024

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# Force First and Last Name as Display Name

 Oleh [Andrew Lima](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewza/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/force-first-last.1.2.2.zip)

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 * [Pembangunan](https://ms.wordpress.org/plugins/force-first-last/#developers)

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## Description

This plugin hides the “Display Name” field on the Edit Profile screen for all users.
Instead of allowing users to set this field, the plugin will always set the User
field display_name to their first and last name. If these field are empty, display_name
will be set to their username.

Display names are set when the user registers as well as when a user’s profile is
updated via the WordPress admin.

The plugin includes a batch process to update the display name for existing users.
Navigate to Settings > Force First Last in the WordPress admin to run the update.

## Screenshots

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 * Display Name field is removed from the User Profile in WordPress admin.

## Installation

#### Download, Install and Activate!

 1. Upload `force-first-last` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Visit Settings > Force First Last to run an initial update for all of your users.

## FAQ

### How do I update existing display names on my site?

Navigate to Settings > Force First Last to run a script that will update all existing
users.

### In my location, names are formatted as LAST FIRST. How do I switch the order?

You will need to use a custom filter to adjust the display order. See this code 
for an example: https://gist.github.com/kimcoleman/dc3227b9cebec79fa983261827df7485.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Отлично!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/%d0%be%d1%82%d0%bb%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%bd%d0%be-326/)󠁿

 [Andrew](https://profiles.wordpress.org/papex/) 4 September 2023

То, что надо! Одной кнопкой изменяет для всех сразу отображаемое имя. Сразу навёл
порядок.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-36253/)󠁿

 [Lucas](https://profiles.wordpress.org/luquerias/) 24 Februari 2023

It does what it is supposed to do. Good plugin.

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### 󠀁[a must have](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-must-have-450/)󠁿

 [Suki](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sukinoz/) 30 Jun 2025

What is really useful is that it HIDES THE “PUBLIC DISPLAY NAME” FIELD WHEN EDITING
USER NOTE: If only the “Last name” is filled in, it takes the username.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great plugin!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-32158/)󠁿

 [emarketingclusters](https://profiles.wordpress.org/emarketingclusters/) 21 September
2021

It works great with Wordpress 5.8.1. Thank you!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Used to work but stopped WP 5.6.1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/used-to-work-but-stopped-wp-5-6-1/)󠁿

 [lefonk](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lefonk/) 16 Februari 2021

Unfortunately it doesn’t work with new user registrations.

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### 󠀁[Still works for the most part. If you want woocommerce support do this.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/still-works-for-the-most-part-if-you-want-woocommerce-support-do-this/)󠁿

 [hotcooler](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hotcooler/) 6 April 2020

Replace one hook with another Find add_action("user_register", "ffl_fix_user_display_name",
20); replace with add_action("woocommerce_created_customer", "ffl_fix_user_display_name",
20);

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## Contributors & Developers

“Force First and Last Name as Display Name” adalah perisian sumber terbuka. Orang-
orang berikut telah menyumbang kepada pemalam ini.

Penyumbang

 *   [ Andrew Lima ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewza/)

“Force First and Last Name as Display Name” telah diterjemahkan ke dalam 2 penempatan.
Terima kasih kepada [para penterjemah](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/force-first-last/contributors)
untuk terjemahan mereka.

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### Berminat dalam pembangunan?

[Layari kod](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/force-first-last/), periksa
[repositori SVN](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/force-first-last/), atau langgani
[log pembangunan](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/force-first-last/) dengan
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/force-first-last/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2.2 – 2024-11-13

 * ENHANCEMENT: Update tested up to WordPress 6.7.
 * ENHANCEMENT: Preparing plugin to be transferred.

#### 1.2.1 – 2023-03-14

 * SECURITY: Added nonce to bulk “Update Existing Users” admin page to protect from
   CSRF vulnerability. (Thanks, @mikhail-net)

#### 1.2 – 2021-03-12

 * ENHANCEMENT: Added `ffl_display_name_order` filter to allow custom code to change
   display name to last first.
 * ENHANCEMENT: Tested up to WordPress 5.7.

#### 1.1 – 2020-08-13

 * ENHANCEMENT: Adding support for the Paid Memberships Pro frontend member profile
   edit screen.
 * ENHANCEMENT: Improving the settings page appearance.
 * ENHANCEMENT: Tested up to WordPress 5.5.
 * ENHANCEMENT: Added pmpro_ffl_hide_display_name_profile filter. Set to return 
   false if you’d like the display name field to show up on the edit user page in
   the WP dashboard.

#### 1.0

 * Change priority of the user_register hook to 20 so it will run after plugins 
   setting first/last name etc.
 * Let’s call this official at 1.0

#### .2

 * Added settings page to update existing users.
 * Hiding display name dropdown on profile page.

#### .1

 * Initial version.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.2**
 *  Last updated **1 tahun lalu**
 *  Active installations **2,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.7.5**
 *  Languages
 * [Dutch](https://nl.wordpress.org/plugins/force-first-last/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/force-first-last/),
   dan [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/force-first-last/).
 *  [Terjemahkan kepada bahasa anda](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/force-first-last)
 * Tags
 * [display-name](https://ms.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/display-name/)[first name](https://ms.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/first-name/)
   [force](https://ms.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/force/)[last name](https://ms.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/last-name/)
   [user](https://ms.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/user/)
 *  [Paparan Lanjutan](https://ms.wordpress.org/plugins/force-first-last/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.3 out of 5 stars.

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## Penyumbang

 *   [ Andrew Lima ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewza/)

## Support

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