[Support request] {{post_author}} is not showing preferred name (Post Page Header)

[Ben]

I have no idea where to look to fix this.

I created a post header and set the content to:

<h1>{{post_title}}</h1>
<div>{{post_date}} by {{post_author}}</div>

When I go view the post it is showing the authors username and not the preferred name set in their user profile.

Example of what I get:

My new blog post
Dec 1, 2017 by agnivohneb

Example of what I want:

My new blog post
Dec 1, 2017 by Ben Hovinga

How can I fix this?

[Leo]

Hi there,

Can you link me to the page?

Thanks!

[Tom]

Hi there,

It should get the nickname of the user – is that field filled out?

[Paul]

Tom,

Having same issue. That template tag displays the author’s username (for login purposes). What we want it to do is display the author’s full name — in my case, the one that’s selected in the ‘Display name publicly as’ dropdown in the User editor.

[Tom]

I believe it currently uses the nickname for some reason – let me see if there’s something I can tweak to use the dropdown option value.

[Paul]

That would be great, Tom. Thanks.

[omer]

hi
in my home page here:
http://www.askomercohen.co.il
i have a comment section below
how can i disable it ?
and how can i add a comment section like this to other pages ?
see photo here

thanks

[Tom]

Have this fixed in GPP 1.6, thanks Paul!

Omer – can you can create a new topic?

Thanks!

[Paul]

Wonderful, thanks Tom!

[Ruben Sans]

Hi Tom, is GPP 1.6 available?

[Leo]

Not yet 🙂

[Author]

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