No, they’re not the same. The nickname is essentially just a meta field for the user to set a name for themselves in a single field that isn’t their login or first/last name. user_nicename on the other hand is the field that’s used for the users author archive URL, when viewing their posts (if they have any). It’s not editable from the profile.
Related Posts:
- Searchable meta value in user.php
- Can’t add users in admin after copying database
- Displaying different in-page content to cliente/admin
- Are there mutiple ways to get usernames (as a hacker)
- Custom default filtering in the user admin panel disables the other sortable columns
- New user form rejected because “passwords don’t match”—but there’s only one password field
- WordPress Password security related questions
- Allow admins to login as other users
- wp-admin/users.php Add a column with last name
- wordpress Account Management generate password missing on my laptop
- How do I delete a wordpress user from giant database?
- Confirmation required on email change
- get_current_user_id() returns 0?
- Email user when password is reset by admin
- How to work around “that email address has already been used” error?
- How can I run a WP-CLI command as authenticated user?
- How to Prevent deleting user accounts in WordPress Back-end?
- LEFT JOIN, INNER OUTER JOIN, LEFT OUTER JOIN is driving me crazy. Please help?
- Hide update messages from non-admin users?
- Upload gravatar in WP profile?
- Recover the user that have been deleted
- WordPress edit_user_profile_update update secondary role
- Check if user is online?
- How to check that if current user (ID) has posts or not
- How to get the Role Name of the current user? (WordPress)
- how to get recent registered author id?
- Is it possible to duplicate users on a new WordPress install?
- Why don’t first_name and last_name appear when you print_r the WP_User object?
- How to use search_columns in WP_User_Query?
- Get users only if Gravatar is specified
- WordPress to use Drupal users’ credentials
- Authenticate with a Rails app?
- Send Email to Users after Deleting Account
- How to add local users to wordpress without email password?
- WP User Query fails when searching meta queries and search columns
- Call to undefined function wp_insert_user()
- *wpupdateuser* user_login in my WordPress database
- Updating user meta
- Changing a username
- Change the user_login at registration
- Are User Levels Still Currently Used?
- How to add a user profile page to frontend?
- Error: How to allow the “contributor” to upload media in wordpress
- Delete users from multisite after they have not logged in for a set amount of time?
- Where is the information about the authors for articles stored?
- Restrict access of admin uploads to certain logged-in users?
- how to know when the user is in specific part of the website and when he leaves that part and display the data in the admin dashboard
- Find user by nicename and open profile
- Using Cloudflare caching on wordpress with front-end user logins
- Redirect user after successful email change
- Reset Password policy
- Register user when after filling contact form
- Is possible to allow user to login with different role?
- Creating user without username and password
- Is this code true or not
- Check for valid email after user inactivity?
- How do I let contributors edit their posts after being approved once?
- Custom Comment Notifications Fire on each Page Load
- The Simple and Correct Way to Add User Meta
- How to check User Role and redirect to specific page according to Role when login in WordPress?
- how to set default update_user_meta values wordpress
- Fix ‘Add Role’ Option not there in wordpress 5.2.2
- Get user id after save post
- Redirect user to login if not logged in, on specific pages
- Check if user is logged in via JS? [duplicate]
- Page for logged in user to Edit/Delete their own content?
- Plugin permissions for Editor role
- Followers for WordPress [duplicate]
- Is there a way to rate users instead of posts?
- Is it possible to build social networking website using WordPress?
- Show metadata in users.php – wordpress
- Is there a way to call via javascript if a user is logged-in on a static html file?
- I need a link that directs the user that is logged to his profile
- Is this a hack? WordPress Usernames of every website we have changed into one single name automatically?
- Getting user data via ajax
- How to change default username field after login
- Append USER ID to an outbound link?
- How do I add profile fields in specific section?
- Users activity history
- How to destroy all user sessions via WP-CLI
- Is a list of user names or IDs in a custom profile field the best way to create a followers list?
- How to restrict Admin from creating new users from Add new user screen in dashboard to only of one domain?
- is_user_logged_in() not working after domain change
- Get the author registration date in the header.php file
- Front end login and page restriction
- Designing a member area on my site
- Link to Authors blog posts
- view and update form only for registered users
- Redirect based on log-in status per JavaScript
- i need to let a user to add a role from a frontend form
- Integrating Facebook Registration (and Login) on a WordPress page
- You do not have permission to access this document on form submit
- WordPress C# User Login
- Create users from frontend without password
- How to get user contact info
- Why does a super admin on multi site get a rest_user_invalid_id error code when requesting user details through REST?
- Remove @gmail.com from WordPress username
- How to create a specific role to manage users
- How to track all users logged into a site?
- Export user data from Squirrly’s Starbox plugin?