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1 Oct 13, 2014 03:52    

I was forced to upgrade to 5.1.2 because my hosting company is forcing me to upgrade to a newer PHP version. The upgrade appears to go well, only one error message about the .htaccess file; everything else had OK and it finished with successful.

After taking the site out of maintenance mode and loading the front page, I noticed the author of each post is now listing the Nickname of the author instead of the Name of the author as it was doing before. I am guessing the upgrade has either changed the results of using author in the skin/template or that a setting changed that I need to set. I have combed through the settings in the admin looking for where I can set the author name to display Name instead of Nickname.

Please advise me on this matter.

2 Oct 13, 2014 17:11

OK, found the answer to this one; have to edit the file that returns "author" to indicate which should be used.

3 Oct 15, 2014 02:16

The best practice would be to edit your skin and not (never) the core. It makes upgrades easier.

4 Nov 20, 2014 01:50

I have exactly the same problem. I just upgraded from 4.X to 5.1.2 and the names next to posts have been replaced by the nicknames of the authors. In old version there was a choise how to display the name (Nickname OR First - Surname OR Surname - First name). I cannot find it anymore :/

Did you removed this option or it is hidden somewhere i cannot see ?

5 Nov 20, 2014 08:07

Yes @lazikas,

That option is not available anymore ( since a long time ago now ). It will be replaced by a global setting to enable "Friendly names" mode in the whole site.

As @fplanque said, you can decide what to display by overriding the preferredname appearances in your skins.

6 Nov 20, 2014 15:18

@mgsolipa wrote earlier:

Yes @lazikas,

That option is not available anymore ( since a long time ago now ). It will be replaced by a global setting to enable "Friendly names" mode in the whole site.

As @fplanque said, you can decide what to display by overriding the preferredname appearances in your skins.

Thank you very much for your answer! It is obvious that i had not upgraded my site for a long time :)
I prefer not to change anything in skins and wait for the replacement :)

Thanks again !

7 Nov 22, 2014 14:59

It would be a nice idea to make a difference between the names in the frontend and the names in the backend. I have disabled some widgets like "last comments" because I will not show my nick in the frontend.

To overwrite it in the skin is uncomfortable and with the next update I risk to forget it.


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