How to display FullName on Topics in Fakebook theme

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Can someone tell me how to display FullName on topics specifically in ‘…/latest’ page.

  1. I have disabled ’ prioritize username in ux ’ site settings.
  2. I have enabled ’ display name on posts ’ site settings.

Even after doing this, I am able to see only the userName on topic instead of fullName. Can someone help me.

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Did you reload the page after changing the settings?

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Yes I did @pfaffman , Actually I am facing this issue for long days. Do I need to change anything in site settings ? Could you please tell me if anything is there other than the above two options. Currently it looks like below. displaying only userName.

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Hi @Pandiyan :slight_smile:

I’m not sure I’m following what you mean by this. Where are usernames displayed on the /latest page? Could you give a bigger screenshot of the page you wish the usernames to be swopped out for fullnames so I can get a better idea of what you’re trying to acheive?

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Hello,

It looks like this is the Fakebook, a theme for social media lovers theme. Fakebook theme uses custom template on topic list to show username but you can modify this template to show the full name too. :slightly_smiling_face:

For this you need to fork the theme on Github and edit the template file. This is the file you have to modify on your fork. Fakebook/custom-topic-list-item.hbr at main · discourse/Fakebook · GitHub

This template has a section which handle user datas on topic list. You have to edit this.

This line shows the username. :arrow_down_small:

<span class="username">{{topic.posters.[0].user.username}}</span>

So we have to add the full name before or after this.

To add full name just simple change this section something like this :arrow_down_small:

<div class="name-and-date">
  <span class="full-name-topic-list">{{topic.posters.[0].user.name}}</span>
  <span class="username">{{topic.posters.[0].user.username}}</span>
    {{format-date topic.createdAt format="tiny"}}
</div>

I added this line above username and this will show the full name on topic list, above username.

<span class="full-name-topic-list">{{topic.posters.[0].user.name}}</span>

Probably need some CSS change but you can easily target the full-name-topic-list class or whatever class you added.

I forked the Fakebook theme now and made this change in this commit so you can see it. Add full name to topic list · VaperinaDEV/Fakebook@0978133 · GitHub

And this is how it looks like.

Don - Full Name
dodesz - Username

Screenshot 2022-08-09 at 16.19.54

Hope this helps :slightly_smiling_face:

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Thanks @JammyDodger for asking more details of my issue. And Thank you so much @Don Great! . Exactly it is a FakeBook theme we are using. I will try to follow the steps to achieve.

And I would also like to know, is there any other possibility of adding some set of codes in my component header/any other section/or in CSS ?, so that it will be very simplest way right. Let me know if anything is there. Thank You!

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