Set Display Name for BuddyPress Profile at Membership Checkout

Many membership sites use BuddyPress to facilitate communication, messaging, and member engagement.

By default, BuddyPress sets the user’s profile name as their selected user login. If you would like a more personalized BuddyPress profile, check out this recipe to set the name to the user’s First and Last name.

The Code Recipe

Adding the Recipe to Your Website

You can add this recipe to your site by creating a custom plugin or using the Code Snippets plugin available for free in the WordPress repository. Read this companion article for step-by-step directions on either method.

Note that for this recipe to work you must be collecting the member’s first and last name at checkout, either through the Add First and Last Name to Checkout Add On, as part of the billing information fields, or via custom user profile fields with the appropriate meta key.

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