I asked Codex to fix my Wordpress Asgaros forum issue - and here is what happened...

My UK capital gains tax calculator website www.ukcgt.xyz had an issue. All my posts on the Asgeros forum on the site where displaying my private email address!

I tried asking Google for a solution and also ChatGPT on Google and spent many hours trying to solve the problem to no avail.

Finally, I tried Codex.

I pointed it at my forum page at https://ukcgt.xyz/forum/ , told Codex that it was a Wordpress site with Asgaros and explained the issue.

Here is what is said:

Yes, that example confirms it: Steve is your WordPress display name, but @steve999gmail-com is the Asgaros Forum mention/profile identifier.

To remove that line, go to:

WordPress Admin → Forum → Settings → Notifications → Enable Mentioning

Turn Enable Mentioning off, then save. Asgaros says that grey @username line is shown for the mentioning feature, and disabling mentions hides it.

If you want to keep mentions but make it say something cleaner, change your WordPress author slug/nicename:

1. Install Edit Author Slug.
2. Go to Users → Your Profile.
3. Set Author Slug to steve
4. Save.
5. Go to Settings → Permalinks → Save Changes.
6. Clear cache.

Best practical fix: change the author slug, then disable mentions if you don’t need them.

It turns out that part of the trouble was that I was not clearing the LiteSpeed Cache - this meant I was not seeing the name disappear when I disabled the 'mentions' feature. 

After installing the Edit Author Slug plugin, I was able to change the Author Slug and re-enable 'mentions' - after clearing the cache again, the problem was solved.

Codex could have saved me hours of frustration if I had simply asked it first!

So yet again, this proves the value of AI. Are you still a dis-believer in AI?