# Full names not shown on posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-names-not-shown-on-posts/51726>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [October 19, 2016, 9:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-names-not-shown-on-posts/51726 "2016-10-19T09:02:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/full-names-not-shown-on-posts/51726/3 "2016-10-20T14:49:41Z")

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After some more digging, it looks like I managed to overlook the site setting `display name on posts` multiple times 😊

I found it by digging through the source code:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/5dbd6a304bed5400be481d71061d3e3ebb4d6785/app/views/topics/plain.html.erb#L12>

After enabling it, to no one’s surprise, the names showed up.

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