Title: Author Display Name
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Author Display Name

 *  Resolved [simonknox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonknox/)
 * (@simonknox)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-display-name/)
 * Only registered users can post to my site and their usernames are their email
   addresses (don’t ask)
 * When a USP is created it always shows the username as the Author rather than 
   the Display Name. Is there a way around this as I’d rather not have everyone’s
   email addresses appearing on the site?
 * This doesn’t happen for posts submitted via the admin pages.
 * Cheers
    Simon
 * [http://www.kingfishercanoeclub.co.uk/the-trasher/](http://www.kingfishercanoeclub.co.uk/the-trasher/)
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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-display-name/#post-4720543)
 * Yes it should be possible via the setting “Use registered username for author?”..
 *  Thread Starter [simonknox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonknox/)
 * (@simonknox)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-display-name/#post-4720555)
 * Yep – I select that and it does use the users registered _username_ and displays
   this at the bottom of the post.
 * What it doesn’t do use the name that the user has selected as their _Public display
   name_In their user profile.
 * In my case the _username_ is their email address and their _public display name_
   is _first last. _
 * For the moment I’ve configured it so the user has to provide their name in the
   form, and this displays correctly in the post. Though this means all the posts
   are actually made by the same user – just the display name is different.
 * Cheers
    Simon
 *  [cmtusa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cmtusa/)
 * (@cmtusa)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-display-name/#post-4720773)
 * Having same problem. Did you resolve it, simon?
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-display-name/#post-4720777)
 * Ah sorry, I had misread your post. That is something that can be done with WordPress
   itself, here is an example:
 *     ```
       <?php global $current_user;
       	get_currentuserinfo();
       	echo 'User display name: ' . $current_user->display_name;
       ?>
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-display-name/#post-4720777)
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