How to change the name display order

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  • 05/07/2015 at 2:50 pm #333730
    dynaguy
    Guest

    I just installed this great plugin in my personal wordpress blog and now everything is in default settings. When visit the page I see the name displayed as [first_name] [last_name]. I really want alter the order so it will display as [last_name] [first_name] and sort by the [last_name]. Could you give me some help please?

    Thanks a lot.

    05/08/2015 at 9:26 am #333758
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ dynaguy

    There’s two ways to do this. The first, you’ll need one of the templates sold here and use the name_format shortcode options to change the name presentation. The second would be to create a template override file for your chosen template and edit the PHP so the name shows like you would like it to.

    Hope that helps!

    05/08/2015 at 3:37 pm #333795
    dynaguy
    Guest

    Thanks for the help.

    So I made the copy of the card template as the override and enabled it. I looked at the code and I think it is related with the function getNameBlock(). I have very limited knowledge of PHP so I don’t know what to do next.

    I also found that the class.entry-output.php is the file where getNameBlock() is. I modified this file and it does works! But I know this is not the correct way and I’ll need to edit this file each time the plugin get updated.

    Could you please teach me how to modify the override template to accomplish my request?

    05/11/2015 at 10:09 am #333905
    Steven Zahm
    Keymaster

    @ dynaguy

    In the template file, change:

    $entry->getNameBlock();

    to:

    $entry->getNameBlock( array( 'format' => '%last%, %first%' ) );

    Hope that helps!

    05/11/2015 at 1:01 pm #333922
    dynaguy
    Guest

    This works great! Thanks a lot Steven!

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