# Name Display Features for Wordpress Comments Plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/name-display-features-for-wordpress-comments-plugin/336886
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** wordpress, wp-discourse
**Created:** [November 19, 2024, 6:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/name-display-features-for-wordpress-comments-plugin/336886 "2024-11-19T06:25:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![SkyeDragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@SkyeDragon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SkyeDragon)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2024, 6:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/name-display-features-for-wordpress-comments-plugin/336886/1 "2024-11-19T06:25:46Z")

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I would like to suggest a pair of features for the wordpress plugin for commenting:

1. An option to show the user’s ‘Full Name’ field instead of their username. For communities that use display names (when available), these are likely to be easier to read and more friendly. Additionally, this helps with consistency between forum and blog comments.

2. Username from staff to have a special CSS class added. This allows adding special highlighting for staff to help indicate a reply may be official or more trusted in nature.

Thanks for reading 🙂

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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2024, 7:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/name-display-features-for-wordpress-comments-plugin/336886/2 "2024-11-19T07:07:05Z")

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> [@SkyeDragon](#):
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> Username from staff to have a special CSS class added. This allows adding special highlighting for staff to help indicate a reply may be official or more trusted in nature.

IIRC this can be done with the class `.staff` in CSS.

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### Author: ![SkyeDragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@SkyeDragon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SkyeDragon)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2024, 8:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/name-display-features-for-wordpress-comments-plugin/336886/3 "2024-11-19T08:26:39Z")

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Hmmm, it’s not coming through for me. My wordpress generates:

```html
<article class="comment-body">
	<footer class="comment-meta">
		<div class="comment-author vcard">
			<img alt="Avatar for Skye" src="https://forum.example.com/user_avatar/forum.example.com/skye/64/3_2.png" class="avatar avatar-64 photo avatar-default" height="64" width="64">
			<b class="fn"><a href="https://forum.example.com/t/test-post-for-discourse/57" rel="external" class="url">Skye</a></b>
			<span class="says screen-reader-text">says:</span><!-- screen reader text -->
		</div>
		<div class="comment-metadata">
			<time datetime=""></time>
		</div>
	</footer>
	<div class="comment-content"><p>Test comment. This is a test comment with <strong>bold text</strong>.</p></div>
</article>		

```

(No `.staff`)

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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2024, 8:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/name-display-features-for-wordpress-comments-plugin/336886/4 "2024-11-19T08:34:45Z")

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Whoops, I think I misunderstood.

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### Author: ![SkyeDragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@SkyeDragon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SkyeDragon)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/name-display-features-for-wordpress-comments-plugin/336886/5 "2024-11-19T10:03:43Z")

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No worries 🙂