[wp-hackers] Username Madness

[Steven Rossi]

Yes, please. Working with user stuff is a pain for this reason. As long as
it's backwards compatible (particularly for plugin developers), I'm all for
this. Thanks for getting it going.

Steven Rossi
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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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