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In the Author Metaboxes for Posts / pages / custom types, it shows: Name (Username)

Is there anyway to customize this to just show Name only? Or maybe Name and Role?

I am pretty sure if it done with wp_dropdown_users but I'm not sure how to use it to make it do what I want and add it as function.

Thank you.

Edit: Screenshot for clarification. This is from the backend of the post editor. My username is Test and my name is John Smith in this example.

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  • Could you please add a screenshot in relation to the Author metabox you are referring to? Is it the back-end Author (select) box or the Author in the front-end?
    – Anake.me
    Commented May 3, 2021 at 6:45
  • Interesting question. There is an attribute to choose what field to display in option and default value is set to display just a name. So, wordpress developers call this function with attribute to show "name (nickname)". There are 2 filters used, one for filtering parsed arguments and query vars, second one for filtering html output. Tried first filter, but it leads to an error if I just unset username from a fields argument. Second filter sounds dirty and requires to just find positions of "()" and cut them from a string. Maybe someone smarter can solve this more natively.
    – anton
    Commented May 3, 2021 at 9:33
  • Added a screenshot as per requested to help clarify
    – Tamerax
    Commented May 3, 2021 at 12:44

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