# Discourse Provide Full Name in Mentions **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-provide-full-name-in-mentions/280813 **Category:** Plugin **Created:** [October 2, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-provide-full-name-in-mentions/280813 "2023-10-02T21:33:18Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![thoka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thoka/32/115652_2.png) [@thoka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thoka) #### Post date: [October 2, 2023, 9:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-provide-full-name-in-mentions/280813/1 "2023-10-02T21:33:18Z")
This is one experiment towards [Full name @mentions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-name-mentions/23896) | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | ℹ | **Summary** | Provide full names for mentions in cooked html | | 🛠 | **Repository Link** | [GitHub - thoka/discourse-provide-full-name-in-mentions · GitHub](https://github.com/thoka/discourse-provide-full-name-in-mentions) | | 📖 | **Install Guide** | [How to install plugins in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-plugins-in-discourse/19157) | ### Features This plugin ads full names to mentions (users and groups) as a data attribute, allowing components to use/show full names without further requests. Currently, we use it together with [GitHub - thoka/discourse-show-name-mentions: A discourse theme component to display the full name instead of usernames in @mentions · GitHub](https://github.com/thoka/discourse-show-name-mentions), but a [CSS-only solution](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-name-mentions/23896/32) should work also. Caveat: Since full names are cached inside cooked content, changes in full name will not be shown until rebake. ### Configuration No configuration needed. You will have to rebake to include the data for old posts. ### TODO - Watch for user and group name changes and rebake affected posts. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-provide-full-name-in-mentions/280813)._