Title: Name Support
Author: mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)
Published: <strong>December 24, 2011</strong>
Last modified: December 24, 2011

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Name Support

 By [mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mitchoyoshitaka/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/name-support.0.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/name-support/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/name-support/#reviews)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/name-support/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/name-support/)

## Description

If you need to implement a custom post type for human beings, where in lieu of a
title you need a _name_, this plugin will add the proper UI. See screenshots for
an example.

#### Usage

When creating your custom post type, just make sure you specify `name` as one of
the post type’s features. (As of version 0.1, the `title` feature, quite counterintuitively,
is also required as in the example below.)

    ```
    register_post_type( 'people', array(     'label' => 'People',     'supports' => array( 'title', 'name', ... )     ... ) ); 
    ```

Name Support also gives you the template tags `the_name()` and `get_the_name()` 
which prints or returns the name in “[First Name] [Last Name]” format.

Development of this plugin was supported by the [Arts at MIT](http://arts.mit.edu/).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * An example of the name entry UI which replaces the regular title entry UI.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Name Support” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mitchoyoshitaka/)

[Translate “Name Support” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/name-support)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/name-support/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/name-support/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/name-support/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/name-support/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.1

 * Initial upload

## Meta

 *  Version **0.1**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.3.2**
 * Tags
 * [cpt](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cpt/)[custom post type](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-post-type/)
   [infrastructure](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/infrastructure/)[name](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/name/)
   [people](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/people/)[person](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/person/)
   [post type](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post-type/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/name-support/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mitchoyoshitaka/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/name-support/)

## Donate

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