How to get username/display name in Buddypress?

justnorris picture justnorris · Jun 14, 2012 · Viewed 18k times · Source

In buddypress default tempalte, username who has posted a certain activity is displayed like this: bp_activity_action(); But that brings much more than just the username. Is there a simpler way to get the user object/name ?

Wordpess get userdata function doesn't work, as it displays the page author, not the comment or activity author name.

Answer

Chirag Patel picture Chirag Patel · Nov 29, 2012

You have Display name use below function:

bp_get_displayed_user_fullname()

OR

Display User Name:

bp_core_get_username($user_id)