WooCommerce Edit Account throwing 'display name is a required field' error

Question

I'm having an issue with WooCommerce edit account page. When submitting the form the error message 'display name is a required field' displays. I've attempted adding a field both

input type="text" and

<select name="display_name" id="display_name" >
    <option selected="selected"><?php echo esc_attr( $user->display_name ); ?></option>
</select>

but no luck trying to add the field. I've also attempted making the field not required but I'm unsure how to do they with the latest version of WooCommerce.

Answer 1

to make it not required, use this:

add_filter('woocommerce_save_account_details_required_fields', 'wc_save_account_details_required_fields' );
function wc_save_account_details_required_fields( $required_fields ){
    unset( $required_fields['account_display_name'] );
    return $required_fields;
}

If you wanted it required, to make the field for it, you need to give it a name attribute 'account_display_name'

Answer 2

You can use woocommerce shortcode [woocommerce_my_account] on your page which has current_user in args array which is automatically set using get_user_by( ‘id’, get_current_user_id() ) Reference: woocommerce documentation

Try the following code. I think you should use input instead of select

<input type="text" class="woocommerce-Input woocommerce-Input--text input-text" name="account_display_name" id="account_display_name" value="<?php echo esc_attr($user->display_name);?>">