# Making the name field required or removing it?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-the-name-field-required-or-removing-it/26574>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Março 20, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-the-name-field-required-or-removing-it/26574 "2015-03-20T12:45:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![slegrand](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/slegrand/32/40000_2.png) [@slegrand](https://meta.discourse.org/u/slegrand)\
**Post date:** [Março 20, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/making-the-name-field-required-or-removing-it/26574/3 "2015-03-20T13:15:09Z")

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I’ve worked out how to create custom ones and making them compulsory fields, but I cannot work out how to make the name field compulsory or remove it.

Currently if I create a name field and make it ‘required’, I end up with two name fields in the sign up form.

EDIT: I’m talking about the default sign-up name field that ships with vanilla discourse.

EDIT2: Ideally I would just like to know how to make that name field required.

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