# Bringing over name from WordPress

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/bringing-over-name-from-wordpress/63638>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [May 30, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bringing-over-name-from-wordpress/63638 "2017-05-30T21:26:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 30, 2017, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bringing-over-name-from-wordpress/63638/2 "2017-05-30T21:48:21Z")

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> [@apautler](#):
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> Right now it appears to bring over the user’s email address into the name field

What it should be doing now is bringing the user’s `display_name` into the name field. If the user’s display name is their email address then that’s what you’ll be getting. I can change the plugin so that it checks to see if either or both the first and last name are set for a user, and if so, use that to fill in the name field.

Edit: the display\_name is editable on a user’s WordPress profile page, and Discourse doesn’t require users to supply a full name, so we probably shouldn’t send the full name by default. It can easily be added as an option though.

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