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# efed

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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [New User Registration ERROR: Please enter your Display name publicly as.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-user-registration-error-please-enter-your-display-name-publicly-as/)
 *  Thread Starter [efed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efed/)
 * (@efed)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-user-registration-error-please-enter-your-display-name-publicly-as/#post-11573952)
 * [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) Thanks a ton for your
   details and examples, I’m definitely keeping this in mind for future reference
   and troubleshooting given how important registration can be.
 * With some help and finally biting the bullet, we found it to be – unexcitingly–
   a plug-in issue.
    Surprisingly, it was Woocommerce, both an older version and
   the most recent update, hiding the WordPress sign-up field: ‘Display name publicly
   as.’ Since it was hidden, and therefore left empty on registration, the error
   was stated as such. Thankfully we’re not using it at the moment, so it was easy
   for our website to disable it, but since it’s so commonly used, I thought I should
   mention it here in case anyone else has a similar issue in the future.
 * Thank you for all your kind help and generosity!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [New User Registration ERROR: Please enter your Display name publicly as.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-user-registration-error-please-enter-your-display-name-publicly-as/)
 *  Thread Starter [efed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/efed/)
 * (@efed)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-user-registration-error-please-enter-your-display-name-publicly-as/#post-11569527)
 * [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/) Thank you for the clear
   breakdown – you articulated my concerns perfectly, especially in relation to 
   this very particular error code. It was very kind of you and incredibly helpful
   that you helped me search the code, at least it takes out some variables.
 * With your recommendation I mustered up the courage to take down Directory Pro
   for a check in the dead of the night here. Unfortunately the error still persists,
   but it’s good to strike one more possibility off the list.
 * Thank you very much for your help.
 * If there might be further insight or troubleshooting recommendations, I’d still
   be very grateful!

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