Hi. I am on the standard edition. Ideally I would completely hide the username field during registration, and have it generate a name automatically. So for example if I enter my name as “Jesse”, then it automatically fills “jesse”, or “jesse1” if jesse is already taken. As far as I can tell that’s …

If your edition provides access to these settings, here’s what you could do: Activate these Site Settings: “Use name for username suggestions” “Show signup form username instructions” Then edit the contents of the Site Text js.user.username.instructions to be something like “Please base your use…

The site text edits are going to help a lot - thank you. I already have prioritize username = off If I hid the input field with CSS - wouldn’t the form validation still require a value?

The value should still be passed. The thing with display:none is that it makes an item invisible, but doesn’t actually remove it from the page code. So it’s not a secure way to hide any critical secrets, because a savvy user could still view source and get at it. But it’s a handy way to do stuff lik…

I follow - I just mean, even though the element still exists (is merely hidden) - it will have a blank value right?

The idea of the setting “Use name for username suggestions” is that the username field will automatically populate with a suggested username (which can still be edited) once the name field is filled out. So in theory, if the field is hidden, this would just happen behind the scenes and our trick wou…

[图片] ToddZ: Not sure yet if I’m missing something, or if we’ve found a bug… I’ve opened a Support topic – hope to learn more: “Use name for username suggestions”: no effect on signup form?

自定义注册表单 / 隐藏或标准化用户名字段

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ToddZ 2026 年3 月 28 日 21:12 7

我已创建一个支持主题，希望能了解更多：
“使用名称作为用户名建议”：对注册表单无效？

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