Make full name display optional across site

[nolageek]

For privacy's sake full first and last name of users should not be visible by default across the site. Perhaps just first name. Ideally this should be a admin configurable option:

Identity Display:

1. First name only
2. First and last name
3. username only
4. User configurable

I'm currently using this change in code to force #3:

Line 243 of bp-xprofile-templatetags.php

function bp_fetch_user_fullname( $user_id = false, $echo = true ) {
	global $bp;

	if ( !$user_id )
		$user_id = $bp['current_userid'];

	$ud = get_userdata($user_id);

	if ( $echo )
		echo $ud->user_login;
	else
		return $ud->user_login;
}

thanks to apeatling for this bit of code.
http://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=50

[tekanji]

The easiest solution would probably be to add the "Nickname" and "Display name publicly as" fields from WordPress' edit profile page to BuddyPress' edit profile page and then to have the display name be used instead of calling the full name by default.

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Milestone Future Enhancements deleted

[DJPaul]

Privacy is a future feature and I think this is more of a question of how an administrator wants to run their site, rather than something to amend in the core.