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Hiya,
Difficult stuff for sure!
So while they can change their "Name" field to display whatever they like, the username is still pretty critical and used throughout BuddyPress. Even doing the 2 things you mention above there'd still be the matter of the URL that is used for the profile page which is also the username.
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Hiya,
Well, some thing about using email addresses would be
1. This is possibly a privacy concern as the email addresses would then be exposed (which is also viewable by visitors/bots by default)
2 As the username is used in the URL, it will break anytime there's a "."
There's really no way around the use of the username for all of those things because of the way it's coded into BuddyPress. Maybe you could call the username something else?
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Hiya,
Difficult stuff for sure!
So while they can change their "Name" field to display whatever they like, the username is still pretty critical and used throughout BuddyPress. Even doing the 2 things you mention above there'd still be the matter of the URL that is used for the profile page which is also the username.
Anyway, we wrote an article a couple years ago on removing the @mention feature, though I'm not sure if it still works:
http://wpmu.org/daily-tip-how-to-remove-mentions-from-buddypress/
If that doesn't work, the only way to disable @mentions is to completely disable the Activity Streams from the BuddyPress Settings.
Hope this helps. Let us know if you need anything further!
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@masonjames
I didnt think it would be easy. What would be ideal is if i could force usernames to be email addresses like on facebook.
Just dont like the idea of people knowing others usernames as they half the puzzle so to speak.
Do you know anyway to make usernames email addresses instead?
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Sorry where were my manners :) trying to do 5 things at once.
Thanks for the the previous response.
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Hiya,
Well, some thing about using email addresses would be
1. This is possibly a privacy concern as the email addresses would then be exposed (which is also viewable by visitors/bots by default)
2 As the username is used in the URL, it will break anytime there's a "."
There's really no way around the use of the username for all of those things because of the way it's coded into BuddyPress. Maybe you could call the username something else?
You could then install a plugin that allows logins with email addresses and the users need not worry about the username.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email-login/
I know that's still not exactly what you're looking for, but perhaps works as an alternative?
Thanks!
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