Title: Disable nicknames/display names
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Disable nicknames/display names

 *  [davec53](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davec53/)
 * (@davec53)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-nicknamesdisplay-names/)
 * i am running a community based site, and users can comment on stories that are
   posted.
 * recently, they’ve figured out that they create different nicknames and have those
   nicknames be displayed when they add a comment, instead of their user name.
 * this wouldn’t be a problem except one or two of them are using nicknames that
   are VERY similar to other people’s user names, in an attempt to confuse folks,
   i think. now, i could just ban them for doing it, but i wondered if there wasn’t
   a way to just force WP to either display their username or disable nicknames 
   altogether?
 * thanks!

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-nicknamesdisplay-names/)
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