{"id":477,"date":"2014-04-24T13:59:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T13:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/?p=477"},"modified":"2015-12-30T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T16:19:08","slug":"changing-your-display-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/2014\/04\/24\/changing-your-display-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing your display name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a blog, you may have noticed that when you write a post it displays your name as the author of the post like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-483\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"display-name-1\" src=\"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/display-name-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/display-name-1.png 415w, https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/display-name-1-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can change what is displayed there. It will be your username by default, but that doesn&#8217;t look great. What if you want it to say &#8220;Kim Stone&#8221; instead of &#8220;stonek&#8221;? Here&#8217;s how you change it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After you log into the site, go to the top right where it says your name and either click on your name or click on the &#8220;Edit My Profile&#8221; option.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-478\" title=\"edit-my-profile\" src=\"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/edit-my-profile.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/edit-my-profile.png 450w, https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/edit-my-profile-300x121.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of stuff on this page, but one section is titled &#8220;Name.&#8221; Here you can put in your first and last name as you want them displayed on the site. Then in the drop-down menu titled &#8220;Display Name Publicly As&#8221;, select the version of your name that you want to display on the website. I&#8217;m using my profile here as an example.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-480\" title=\"change-display-name\" src=\"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/change-display-name.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"807\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/change-display-name.png 807w, https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/change-display-name-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/change-display-name-500x289.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Make sure to scroll to the bottom of the page and click the &#8220;Update Profile&#8221; button. This will save your changes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-487\" title=\"update-profile-button\" src=\"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/update-profile-button.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"132\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, if you look at your blog posts, you should see the display name you selected.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-484\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"display-name-2\" src=\"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/display-name-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/display-name-2.png 418w, https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/files\/2014\/04\/display-name-2-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a blog, you may have noticed that when you write a post it displays your name as the author of the post like this: You can change what is displayed there. It will be your username by default, but that doesn&#8217;t look great. What if you want it to say &#8220;Kim Stone&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/mannj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}