Title: Hide Username Front Side Author: Mindstien Technologies Published: May 24, 2013 Last modified: September 13, 2014 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/hide-username-front-side/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=717658) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/hide-username-front-side/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=988892) # Hide Username Front Side By [Mindstien Technologies](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mindstien/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hide-username-front-side.2.0.zip) * [Details](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-username-front-side/#description) * [Reviews](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-username-front-side/#reviews) * [Installation](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-username-front-side/#installation) * [Development](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-username-front-side/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-username-front-side/) ## Description ** Bulk Fix Feature added in version 2.0 to update all existing users ** Secures your wp site from hackers by hiding username of members from front side. Force user signup form to accept first name and last name, then uses the combination to replace author’s display name, url slug and nick name to hide the username from frontside, also updates the url slug on user profile update. Help me improve the plugin. Please report any bug / issues / suggestion in support forum and I would be more than happy to fix it right a way. Hire plugin author for your [WordPress Development](http://www.freelancer.com/u/mindstiente.html). Visit official website for this plugin at [Mindstien Technologies](http://www.mindstien.com). ## Installation 1. Install the plugin and activate from plugins page. Thats pretty easy. ## FAQ How this plugin works ? This plugin simply replaces default author url slug, display name with the combination of firstname and lastname to hide the actual user name of author from front side. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9389b7646152fd071dc0ed13f63db71989409baf97e095e1dd87755a66f9fc15? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Abandoned – won’t work correctly anymore](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/abandoned-wont-work-correctly-anymore/)󠁿 [manni65929](https://profiles.wordpress.org/manni65929/) July 29, 2018 Ideally, this plugin is supposed to hide the @username still used in BuddyPress and replace it with the nice name generated from the first and last name of the respective user. Unfortunately, that no longer works. The plugin correctly replaces the first username found with the beforementioned string, but all other usernames are replaced with @first_last_n where “n” is a digit added automatically by this plugin. So if you have 5 users the user’s nice name would be “@first_last_2”, “@first_last_3” and so forth. In general this doesn’t defeat the general purpose of the plugin, but it doesn’t work 100% as described. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ee21d891ec15ac1335aa445bad865a356974cdd28526368cc0c8138ab6ba3e74? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-12191/)󠁿 [Mindstien Technologies](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mindstien/) February 7, 2017 great plugin for security concept, it hides user’s usernames completely from frontend of the site… [ Read all 5 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-username-front-side/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Hide Username Front Side” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Mindstien Technologies ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mindstien/) [Translate “Hide Username Front Side” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hide-username-front-side) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hide-username-front-side/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hide-username-front-side/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hide-username-front-side/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hide-username-front-side/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog 2.0: ** Bulk Fix Feature added in version 2.0 to update all existing users ** 1.0: New plugin launched. ## Meta * Version **2.0** * Last updated **12 years ago** * Active installations **100+** * WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.0.38** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hide-username-front-side/) * Tags * [login](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/login/)[login name](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/login-name/) [security](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)[username](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/username/) * [Advanced View](https://pcm.wordpress.org/plugins/hide-username-front-side/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.4 out of 5 stars. * [ 4 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-username-front-side/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-username-front-side/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-username-front-side/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 1 2-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-username-front-side/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-username-front-side/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-username-front-side/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hide-username-front-side/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Mindstien Technologies ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mindstien/) ## Support Got something to say? 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