[wp-hackers] Username Madness

[Pete Mall]

It'll break every other plugin!

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Glenn Ansley <glenn at glennansley.com> wrote:

> +1 on this.
> What about backwards compatibility?
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:24 AM, scribu <scribu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Currently, in the wp_users table, there are 3 fields for the user name:
> >
> > user_login
> > user_nicename
> > display_name
> >
> > Besides those, we have two fields in wp_usermeta:
> >
> > first_name
> > last_name
> >
> >
> > Instead of retaining a value, display_name should only remember the user
> > preference:
> >
> > 1 - user_login
> > 2 - user_nicename
> > 3 - first_name + last_name
> >
> > with 2 as the default value.
> >
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
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