Title: @usernames Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # @usernames * Resolved [joeymalek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeymalek/) * (@joeymalek) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-1/) * Hello and well done for your continued improvements of this great plugin. Can you please change “usernames” in [@usernames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/usernames/) with “displaynames” Thanks a lot. * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/hashtagger/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hashtagger/) Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [Peter Raschendorfer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smartwarecc/) * (@smartwarecc) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-1/#post-5307197) * Let me get this right, do you mean to display e.g. “Bill Gates” instead of “@ bill” when viewing a post in Frontend? * Thread Starter [joeymalek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeymalek/) * (@joeymalek) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-1/#post-5307206) * Ok. Have a look here [http://www.authorsure.com/827/wordpress-username-security](http://www.authorsure.com/827/wordpress-username-security) Let me know if you see the issue I am raising. And the fact that Automattic is not caring about revealing username is not a smart at all as far as I am concerned. * [Peter Raschendorfer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smartwarecc/) * (@smartwarecc) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-1/#post-5307233) * OK, I unterstand the problem you see with publishing usernames. Thanks for drawing attention to this! I’ll add this option in a future version. * Thread Starter [joeymalek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeymalek/) * (@joeymalek) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-1/#post-5307239) * Thanks a lot. Truth is this I found out Autoamttic using the [@username](https://wordpress.org/support/users/username/) in its p2 theme internally as a production platform does not care to display usernames. Well mayby there are 30 with each core developer his own double verification key from the tablet to login so they actually do not care. But when using p2 or hashtagger with 100’s of facebook type users then it becomes important. So up to you but I believe it is necessary when using wordpress like a forum or social platform like buddypress. Thanks for your understanding. * [Peter Raschendorfer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smartwarecc/) * (@smartwarecc) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-1/#post-5307355) * Thanks for drawing my attention to that. This inspired me to another plugin. Take a look at: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-user-slug-hider](https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-user-slug-hider) * Thread Starter [joeymalek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeymalek/) * (@joeymalek) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-1/#post-5307356) * Thanks a lot and I love the yellow hat 🙂 I think that you should change the 404 error page feature ( The WordPress default URLs (like [http://www.example.com/author/admin](http://www.example.com/author/admin)) will cause a 404 (not found) error.) or do you mean that the url you created with your plugin [http://www.example.com/author/e9e716def73f76ac](http://www.example.com/author/e9e716def73f76ac) does NOT create a 404 error ? Because auhor url are crawled and indexed by google all the time and basically by default. So if there is a 404 for all author pages that is too negative. Now the random keys display name is smart but only where there is a site with lots of authors (special case kind of). So the authors are not necessarily bothering security then in this case your plugin is good. I tried to answer you with some input based on my experience. Thanks for your great contribution. * [Peter Raschendorfer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smartwarecc/) * (@smartwarecc) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-1/#post-5307367) * added an option to use [@nicknames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicknames/) instead of [@usernames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/usernames/) in V 2.1 * Thread Starter [joeymalek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeymalek/) * (@joeymalek) * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-1/#post-5307368) * Thank you very much. This is super cool And your plugin is damn awesome i like it more than the native tag system of wp !!! 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