How to Show Part Name Rather than Full Name in Email Templates

You can use the customer.firstname and customer.lastname variables to only show part of the customer's name in the emails sent to the customer.

Here is an example of how you can modify the default User-Registration Email Template to only show the initial of the customer's first name, followed by their last name:

Default Code

Code to be modified highlighted in red:

Custom Code

Replace the code in red above with the code in red below, as follows:

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