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User Full name

Is there anyway to disable 'Last Name' being a compulsory field? I'd really like my site to deal with usernames only, and don't want to have to make users reveal their real names.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Carlos
mod templates
by cglusky / at 19:21 on February 22, 2006

I would do it through the template. Just search through the template files and get rid of anything that looks like this:

{$users.user_lastname}

or

{$user.user_lastname}

So, you may ask for last_name during registration but you do not need to display it.

Coby

it's possible
by glen / at 21:28 on February 22, 2006

You could certainly disable it entirely. You could, for example, create a plugin that redefined the last_name field and either removed it or set required=FALSE.

Or..
by holymegabyte / at 12:47 on May 23, 2006

Just add a note telling people to put the funniest name they can think of...

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