Comments section showing my email address instead of display name

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    aakashrankwatch · Member ·

    When I am posting a response to a thread, my profile is showing email address instead of the display name which is Aakash_RW. http://prntscr.com/l2e0mh

    I have made sure that everything is correct – checked my profile, verified my email address, cleared the browser cache but still the same. If this does not get fixed I would have to close this account – wordpress is completely being completely counterproductive here and my email address is being exposed over the web!

    Can anyone help?

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    kruttikaphalke · Member ·

    Hi there,

    Please share your site URL so that we can help you further.

    Thanks.

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    shini1509 · Member ·

    Hi Akash,

    Hope you are doing good:)

    Blog owners are in full control of the comments on their blogs. When a visitor leaves a comment on a blog it is asked to disclose its email address, it’s not something done unknowingly.

    For a comment to be anonymously posted without requiring an email address a blog owner must disable the “Comment author must fill out name and e-mail” option on the Settings > Discussion page. You can read more about it here:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/who-can-comment/#who-can-comment

    You may also check following link as the same concern was raised before also and was solved by the staff successfully:-

    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/comments-show-email-address/

    In case of further issue plz do revert

    Thanks :)

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    aakashrankwatch · Member ·

    Hi Guys,

    Thanks for getting back.

    Here I am talking about my Gravatar profile. I have created a Gravatar profile to address the question as creator on a forum. When I am commenting on the forum, the comment should be from Aakash_RW but instead it is showing my actual email address – as shown over the screenshot I have added.

    So email address is open over a website which has millions of visitors, apparently not great thing to have.

    Am I missing anything?

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    shini1509 · Member ·

    Hi Aakash,

    I am not sure but i do have something for you,do try it may help u out.
    Go to Profile Settings->There you have profile links option at the end of the page ,check and remove that option because it contains email address of the wordpress site
    May be because of that it is showing up your email address over the comments.
    Because when I saw my setting i do not have profile links and my email address do not show up over the comments.

    plz go through the following blog too:-

    Manage My Profile

    Do revert in case further help is required

    Thanks :)

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