I would like to know how can I display Name/FullName in every place of the discourse and also in Profile Pic place(Should be first letter of the fullname) instead of displaying Username. Since we are using sso login, currently the username is EmployeeID and only that employee ID is showing everywhe…

[image] Discourse Avatar name_first_letter Plugin This plugin adds the ability to use name_first_letter in site setting external system avatars url. The default value for external system avatars url is /letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/{first_letter}/{color…

[image] How to show full name BEFORE username? (just like in Meta) Support Disable the prioritize username in ux site setting

Hi @vinothkannans , Thank you for your guidance. I have already disabled that option from setting. Below is the picture that I am getting [image] Even though we have disabled that option, we are getting username only instead of fullname whenever any user is creating any topic. Please help me fi…

To display name on posts you should enable “display name on posts” site setting. [image] Pandiyan: also in Profile Pic place(Should be first letter of the fullname) instead of displaying Username You can’t change it in the settings. You would need a custom plugin to change the profile pictur…

Hi @vinothkannans Thanks for updating about the profile picture! I have already enabled that option in setting, but if we are in /latest page or /top page, for topics we are able to see only the username as like previously attached picture. After we got enter into any of the topic then we are able…

Yes, the default profile picture will be username’s first charecter.

Is there any possibility to display fullname’s first character in Profile Picture by using any settings or anyother ? It will be helpful if you suggest any plugins. Thank you.

[image] Vinoth Kannan: You can’t change it in the settings. You would need a custom plugin to change the profile picture’s letter. [image] Developing Discourse Plugins - Part 1 - Create a basic plugin Developer Guides Building a plugin in Discourse can b…

Good one, @vinothkannans ! I noticed this topic the other day and totally forgot that I’d written this plugin. Glancing at the code, it’s not immediately obvious to me that it might be broken (but that may not mean much). I can’t quite remember who I wrote it for to know whether it’s still in use (I…

Thank You @vinothkannans for sharing this plugin information and It is working fine @pfaffman after adding this in setting–>external system avatars url /letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/{name_first_letter}/{color}/{size}.png Thank you!

Great! Glad you figured it out, @Pandiyan . It looks like the readme for the plugin describes changing that setting. Is there some way that I could change the language to make it more clear? I added the line: So hopefully that’ll make it more clear. I guess we can move this to Support ? It would…

Display FullName instead of UserName in the Profile

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vinothkannans (Vinoth Kannan) July 25, 2022, 7:10am 2

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Display FullName instead of UserName in the Profile

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