By sinker on

so the user name gets shortened in things like forum posts--to 14 characters, down from however many are in the name. This is true, and makes sense for a name like "supercrazylongusernamewowowow" which will display all kinds of weird, and great--cut it off. but for a user name like "super crazy long user name wow wow wow" why can't I get the whole name to display, and simply wrap where necessary?

Ideas?

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sinker’s picture

sinker commented

No one has any ideas of how to change this functionality? It seems counter-intuitive to many of my users that their names get cut off, when they could simply wrap.

edzhus’s picture

edzhus commented

check this thread http://drupal.org/node/36795

wOOge’s picture

wOOge commented

I know this is an old post, but in case anyone is looking for a solution for this check out the "RealName" module:

http://drupal.org/project/realname

Check the general settings page of this module — you can adjust the length of a truncated username.

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wOOge | adrianjean.ca

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efruin commented

The D7 version of the Real Name module doesn't seem to have the option to change the number of characters the name get truncated to, so if you're finding this now, this may not be your best solution.

Instead, you can use the simple theme function on this page to do it. http://drupal.org/node/1398754