# Change mention from username to a name?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-mention-from-username-to-a-name/201310
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 22, 2021, 4:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-mention-from-username-to-a-name/201310 "2021-08-22T04:16:59Z")
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### Author: ![OverseersMight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/overseersmight/32/228719_2.png) [@OverseersMight](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OverseersMight)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-mention-from-username-to-a-name/201310/4 "2021-08-22T14:33:53Z")

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Any links to this plugin @pfaffman? I also found this,

> [@Full name @mentions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-name-mentions/23896/56):
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> @nachof I found a way to make it work: [Use fullnames for mentions · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/jessicah/cd580bab64d89875a157579789b03511) by overriding \_show() in component:user-card-contents. I’m guessing the leading underscore means we probably shouldn’t override it? But it seems to work: Perhaps there needs to be an entry point to optionally get the username from $target? Anyway, this was really a blocker from my POV to deploying to my wider community. Time to roll ahead smiley

Which also seems to work.  
Thank you for being such a great contributor to this community.

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