Title: ERROR: Please Enter a Nickname
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# ERROR: Please Enter a Nickname

 *  Resolved [ScottieDFLH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottiedflh/)
 * (@scottiedflh)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/)
 * Hello, I have version 6.4.3 of Theme My Login with WP version 4.4.1. I’m pretty
   sure the issue I have is due to the latest WP upgrade, but didn’t know about 
   it until one of my users informed me.
 * When someone tries to make ANY changes to their profile, they get the following
   error:
 * ERROR: Please Enter A Nickname
 * Here is the URL:
 * [http://www.faygoluvers.net/v5/your-profile/](http://www.faygoluvers.net/v5/your-profile/)
 * I don’t have a nickname field when setting up a profile for the first time, and
   have attempted to look through the code in WP Editor and don’t see any references
   to it. Help please!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login/)

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 *  [Ismael Latorre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miguelripoll/)
 * (@miguelripoll)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947558)
 * Same error here, only started happening after WP 4.4.1.
 * It happens in different installs, with different themes, so it is related to 
   the upgrade and how TMLI works with this newest version, regardless of theme.
 * Please help.
 *  Thread Starter [ScottieDFLH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottiedflh/)
 * (@scottiedflh)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947653)
 * Any updates on this? I would really like to get this working again. Any suggestions
   are greatly appreciated!
 *  [Ismael Latorre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miguelripoll/)
 * (@miguelripoll)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947674)
 * This plugin doesn’t work with latest WP version (4.4.1).
 *  Thread Starter [ScottieDFLH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottiedflh/)
 * (@scottiedflh)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947675)
 * Hmm. The Author says that it’s compatible. I was hoping to hear from Jeff Farthing
   to see if he had a chance to look into it yet, or needed more info.
 *  [Alicadabra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alicadabra/)
 * (@alicadabra)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947688)
 * Marking my place. I’m having the same issue.
 *  [max](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximledoux/)
 * (@maximledoux)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947691)
 * I’m getting this error, too. However, even though it displays as an error, any
   changes to profile are saved. So it’s not that bad. Still, it is confusing for
   my web site’s members. I considered using css to hide the error message, but 
   that would also hide legitimate errors. I hope Mr. Farthing will release an update
   on this soon.
 *  Thread Starter [ScottieDFLH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottiedflh/)
 * (@scottiedflh)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947694)
 * Unfortunately, I’m not that lucky. The changes aren’t updated on my site. I, 
   too, am hoping that Mr. Farthing lets us know if he’s found the issue soon. I
   appreciate all of you chiming in!
 *  [max](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximledoux/)
 * (@maximledoux)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947699)
 * Until he does, you can do this work-around that I’m using.
 * I have a custom `profile-form.php` in my theme folder that over-rides the `profile-
   form.php` that is in the plugin folder. I don’t have a field for nickname, since
   we don’t use it. So, I guess that’s why I’m seeing this error.
 * So I took this bit of code from `plugins/theme-my-login/templates/profile-form.
   php` (line 50-53):
 *     ```
       <tr class="tml-nickname-wrap">
       			<th><label for="nickname"><?php _e( 'Nickname', 'theme-my-login' ); ?> <span class="description"><?php _e( '(required)', 'theme-my-login' ); ?></span></label></th>
       			<td><input type="text" name="nickname" id="nickname" value="<?php echo esc_attr( $profileuser->nickname ); ?>" class="regular-text" /></td>
       		</tr>
       ```
   
 * And I put it somewhere in my custom `profile-form.php` (it doesn’t really matter
   where). Then I changed it like this:
 *     ```
       <tr style="display:none;" class="tml-nickname-wrap">
       			<th><label for="nickname"><?php _e( 'Nickname', 'theme-my-login' ); ?> <span class="description"><?php _e( '(required)', 'theme-my-login' ); ?></span></label></th>
       			<td><input type="text" name="nickname" id="nickname" value="<?php echo esc_attr( $profileuser->first_name ); ?>" class="regular-text" /></td>
       		</tr>
       ```
   
 * See? I added `style="display:none;"` to the `<tr>` so that users won’t see any
   of this (that’s why it doesn’t matter where it goes). And I populated the field
   with `$profileuser->first_name` instead of `$profileuser->nickname`. You could
   do `last_name`, or something else. They’re not going to see it so it doesn’t 
   matter.
 * I hope that helps you. If so, just keep it in mind when Farthing does update 
   the plugin to fix this problem. At that point we’ll both want to remove this 
   from our custom `profile-form.php`.
 * PS I also changed the table elements to divs.
 *  Thread Starter [ScottieDFLH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottiedflh/)
 * (@scottiedflh)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947706)
 * Max, you’re my hero. That worked like a charm! I had to change the variable to
   user_name instead of first_name because that’s all I require in my form, but 
   after that, I was good to go! Thank you so much for this post!
 *  [max](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximledoux/)
 * (@maximledoux)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947707)
 * Glad to help. There’s probably a better way to do it, but it works.
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Farthing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfarthing84/)
 * (@jfarthing84)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947713)
 * Just reading this today. I’ll look into it.
 *  Thread Starter [ScottieDFLH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottiedflh/)
 * (@scottiedflh)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947715)
 * Thanks Jeff! The workaround from above seems to be working for me but an official
   fix would probably help a lot of people out. Thank you for looking into it!
 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Farthing](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jfarthing84/)
 * (@jfarthing84)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947738)
 * The nickname field is required – and it’s in TML’s profile template by default.
   If you don’t want it there, a simple workound is simply adding it as a hidden
   input.
 *  Thread Starter [ScottieDFLH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottiedflh/)
 * (@scottiedflh)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947739)
 * Strange, it didn’t start popping up until the latest WordPress update which is
   why I started this thread. Can you point me in the right directionas to how to
   add the nickname field as a hidden input?
 *  [max](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maximledoux/)
 * (@maximledoux)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-enter-a-nickname/#post-6947740)
 * I should have done that to start with. Not sure why I went with the more complicated
   CSS route. Oh, well.
 * Replace what we did earlier with:
 * `<input type="hidden" name="nickname" id="nickname" value="<?php echo esc_attr(
   $profileuser->user_name ); ?>" class="regular-text" />`
 * (You can delete the css rule, too.)

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