I made copies of register.tpl and identification.tpl, made the suggested changes and uploaded them to the template-extension folder. I created a personal plugin (removing two close parentheses which were incorrect in the documentation) and saved it.

No changes appear to have been made. I have the same login screen as before. Has anyone else tried this and been successful? Maybe I am missing something. There is a comment about "merging" which I don't understand in the documentation.

Any further help would be appreciated.

Ok, I give up.

The firstname lastname change did change the screens for registation and login, however it did not change the side menu. The personal plugin change did not work.

I reversed all of my changes, only to find that the screens were still using the firstname lastname changes, even though the original copies of register.tpl and idenitification.tpl were in place, and no files were in the template-extension folder.

With a little bit of digging I found that there were "copies" of those files in a folder called "template_c" which were being used. I deleted them and new ones were created using the original files.

Now everything is back to normal, sadly without the firstname/lastname changes. I would still like to know of anyone ever got these to work.

Thanks for the update. I will try again. But I still don't understand the "merge" reference in the documentation. I followed the change instructions for register.tpl and indentification.tpl, and added the new code from the documentation to the Personal Plugin. Was I also supposed to "merge" something?