Thanks again Brajesh. I appreciate your responsiveness.

I’m definitely not adding it.
I want to hide the Joined date and the username over the cover photo. It seems making it display the Company Name over the cover photo is apparently a big deal so for a Company I’d rather it just not show anything. But then it will hide it for everyone which is preferable to it looking like this.

I don’t want it to look like company-name for the Company name over the cover photo. Do you have any ideas how to make a custom field being company_name be the display name? I’ve spent weeks and hit a dead end. There is a plug in which does it from memberfix but then when you go to edit a profile either as admin or the user it gives you an error that formatting for the username must be lower-lower and won’t let you save it.

I don’t use Elementor. I used to in other sites but it was too bulky and hard to get it out of it. I use Generate Press for everything now.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Hi,
Thank you for the response!

In other words, did I create a field in the fields option of BB settings? If so, yes. So when they register, if they are a company, they have a field for Company Name.

I’ve been looking at these options but not sure what to change:

From a previous forum topic:
https://buddypress.org/support/topic/how-to-set-display_name-xprofile-custom_field-at-the-user-registration/

add_action( ‘bp_core_activated_user’, ‘change_user_defaults’, 99, 3 );
function change_user_defaults($user_id, $key, $user) {

if (empty($user_id)) {
$user_id = bp_loggedin_user_id();
}

if (empty($user_id)) {
return false;
}

$mv_first_name = xprofile_get_field_data(26, $user_id);
$mv_last_name = xprofile_get_field_data(11, $user_id);
$name = $mv_first_name . ‘ ‘ . $mv_last_name;

if ($name !== ‘ ‘) {
$args = array(
‘ID’ => $user_id,
‘display_name’ => $name
);
wp_update_user($args);
}
}

______

Or
http://hookr.io/functions/bp_get_member_name/

_________

Or
https://www.buddyboss.com/resources/reference/functions/bp_get_member_name/

function bp_get_member_name() {
global $members_template;

// Generally, this only fires when xprofile is disabled.
if ( empty( $members_template->member->fullname ) ) {
// Our order of preference for alternative fullnames.
$name_stack = array(
‘display_name’,
‘user_nicename’,
‘user_login’
);

foreach ( $name_stack as $source ) {
if ( !empty( $members_template->member->{$source} ) ) {
// When a value is found, set it as fullname and be done with it.
$members_template->member->fullname = $members_template->member->{$source};
break;
}
}
}

$list_fields = bp_xprofile_get_hidden_fields_for_user( $members_template->member->ID, bp_loggedin_user_id() );
if ( empty( $list_fields ) ) {
$full_name = $members_template->member->fullname;
} else {
$last_name_field_id = bp_xprofile_lastname_field_id();
if ( in_array( $last_name_field_id, $list_fields ) ) {
$last_name = $members_template->member->fullname;
$full_name = str_replace( ‘ ‘ . $last_name, ”, $members_template->member->fullname );
} else {
$full_name = $members_template->member->fullname;
}
}

/**
* Filters the display name of current member in the loop.
*
* @since BuddyPress 1.2.0
*
* @param string $fullname Display name for current member.
*/
return apply_filters( ‘bp_get_member_name’, trim( $full_name ) );
}

Seems like that’s around the topic but I don’t know what to tweak. I do have Snippets installed so easy to drop it in if I could get some help with the code.

Thank you so much in advance! Surely other people want to be able to use a profile field and Display Name?

What would be even better is if:
IF there is a company name, then display that (meta field from xprofile field), and if not let the user choose from First Name, First/Last or nickname. Is that possible?