# Hide 'Username' from posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 6, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507 "2020-03-06T13:37:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@christian\_01](https://meta.discourse.org/u/christian_01)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507/1 "2020-03-06T13:37:38Z")
Any advice how to hide ‘Usernames’ from published topics please?
Quite often my users use the same ‘username’ as ‘name’, so it’s basically duplicated.
Here is an example.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507/2 "2020-03-06T13:40:37Z")
The username is used to mention people.
@christian_01
~~If you hide it, it will be difficult to mention people who have different name and username.~~
(wrong, see [Hide 'Username' from posts - #8 by avandest](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507/8))
To hide it, use this CSS:
```css
.names .username {
display: none;
}
```
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### Author:  [@christian\_01](https://meta.discourse.org/u/christian_01)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507/3 "2020-03-06T13:42:32Z")
Ah, okay. Thank you for the advice.
How about hiding ‘name’?
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 1:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507/4 "2020-03-06T13:45:36Z")
See in your admin panel the setting “enable names”.
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### Author:  [@christian\_01](https://meta.discourse.org/u/christian_01)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507/5 "2020-03-06T13:49:52Z")
Thank you @Canapin. Much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507/6 "2020-03-06T13:51:50Z")
The “enable names” config, when unset, hides names **everywhere**.
For hiding _only_ on posts, unset the config “display name on posts”.
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### Author:  [@ked](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ked)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507/7 "2020-03-08T23:52:24Z")
@renato is certainly right about “everywhere”, even in the Admin panel for a User. I want to use (and sure do like) the “enable names” config, BUT, I’d at least like to have it shown to me as an Admin in the Admin panel.
Is there a way to arrange for this?
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### Author:  [@avandest](https://meta.discourse.org/u/avandest)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507/8 "2020-03-11T16:20:45Z")
Can you not tag people by full name? That seems to work for us…
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507/9 "2020-03-11T16:22:42Z")
Indeed, I wasn’t aware of this. 👍
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 10, 2020, 4:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/hide-username-from-posts/143507/10 "2020-04-10T16:22:56Z")
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