Placeholders

With PlaceholderAPI installed, dNicks registers the dnicks expansion. This is the bridge that lets other plugins (scoreboards, the TAB plugin, chat plugins) render the same nick.

Placeholder	Returns
%dnicks_name%	The styled nick as legacy §-hex — per-character color survives for string consumers like TAB. Falls back to the username.
%dnicks_mini%	The raw MiniMessage string the player set (e.g. <gradient:#ff0000:#00ffff>Steve</gradient>).
%dnicks_raw% / %dnicks_plain%	The stripped, plain visible text.
%dnicks_hasnick%	true / false.

Example — TAB nametag above the head (keep the role prefix)

# TAB groups.yml / users.yml
_DEFAULT_:
  tagprefix: "%luckperms_prefix%"
  customtagname: "%dnicks_name%"     # gradient name; keep unlimited nametags on
  tagsuffix: "%luckperms_suffix%"

Example — TAB tab list

# TAB groups.yml / users.yml
_DEFAULT_:
  tabprefix: "%luckperms_prefix%"
  customtabname: "%dnicks_name%"
  tabsuffix: "%luckperms_suffix%"

Example — a scoreboard line

%dnicks_name%   ·   online

Use %dnicks_name% anywhere a placeholder is supported and you want the gradient — wrap it with your role placeholders (%luckperms_prefix% …) to keep ranks. For dNicks’ own built-in surfaces (chat, tab list) you don’t need PlaceholderAPI at all; you do need it for the nametag-plugin setup. See Integrations and The Nametag Above the Head.