[wp-hackers] Username Madness

[Nikolay Bachiyski]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 16:24, 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?
>

We should have only one editable field: display_name and get rid of
nickname and first/last name.

There are two many languages, in which the name pair doesn't make any
sense. Also, one field is better than three.

Happy hacking,
Nikolay.