[wp-hackers] Username Madness

[Otto]

-1. I see no benefit to this, and several downsides. Those three
fields do different things and so should contain different
information.

Also, what if I want my display_name to be something different? The
database doesn't have to be limited to only what the existing UI is
capable of.

-Otto



On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:24 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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