I have been slowly adding some plug ins to test them before I make them go live, finally enabled mentions today, and this is the greatest thing I have ever seen on a forum, just wanted to say thanks for that
your welcome! quick question, does it only work with rich text editor? I switched to html to test the signature and noticed it didn’t show up with html, when I switched back to rich text it worked fine
yes.. only works with tinymce richtext… the mentions thing is a tinymce plugin… might need to add some info text to that effect…
question about this, say a users wp id is tom, he changes his display name to sue, so when someone enters “@ sue” it shows up in the textarea as “@ tom” until they they post, then it shows the display name not the wp id, if they go to edit the post, it shows up as the wp id, not the display name. Is this the correct way it should work? It has caused some confusion and I just want to make sure I’m not messing up a setting
Yellow Swordfish said
I am going to let Steve answer this one..
lol,I think I just got the answer
yes, that is the way it works… unfortunately, spaces in a display name are not really usable for recognition (ie regular expression matching)… we would great slowly down processing – maybe even smoke the cpu – if we tried to match a display name because the entire post could be a name… by that I mean there is nothing that terminates the end of a name… spaces, punctuation, etc are all allowed… so we need something to be able to match on in the post… by user the wp user_nicename (its not really the login) we get no spaces or chars in there… we can regular expression match it… another alternative would have been to put markers in there such as @my name john@ but that would be just as funky looking.. so we temp made it the nicename until saved…
so kind of stuck… but open to workable suggestions… 
