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Members - adding nickname attribute and displaying in place of username on blog pages

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I am trying to find out a way to add a nickname attribute to members so that I can have the blog pages show the member's (author's) nickname in place of the username. This is a simple matter on some other CMS platforms. Am I overlooking something?

Thanks in advance!

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shondy
 
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MrKDilkington
Hi shondy,

The block you circled in your screenshot is the Page Title block with the "Byline" custom template.

The Byline custom template can be modified to display a user attribute instead of the user display name. The new modified custom template will be named "Byline Nickname".
- create the "Nickname" user attribute with the handle of "nickname"
- copy byline.php
concrete\blocks\page_title\templates\byline.php
- paste byline.php into application\blocks\page_title\templates
application\blocks\page_title\templates\byline.php
- rename byline.php to byline_nickname.php
- open byline_nickname.php
find:
$user->getUserDisplayName()

replace with:
$user->getAttribute('nickname')

- set the Page Title block custom template to "Byline Nickname"