Forcing Real Names in @mentions

[JammyDodger]

I’m not sure how a custom field would work here?

But there is this theme component which may do what you need:

Discourse Show Fullname in Mentions

A theme component to display the full name instead of usernames in @mentions. This theme component loads the full name of the user and display @fullname instead of @username in mentions. before: [image] after: [image] This component works by simply replacing the username with the name of the user (if available) when displaying the posts. Nothing changes while editing. You still tag @username like always in the composer. It also adds the class .mention-fullname to the a.mention anc…