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Re: Email as Username

2011-10-28T14:47:42-05:00

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Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — October 28th, 2011, 2:47 pm

Re: Email as Username

2011-10-28T13:18:48-05:00

okay cool. I did notice when I tried to implement this plugin ... http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si- ... wordpress/ ... that the captcha isn't recognized on Submit action. Any idea why that would be?

Statistics: Posted by antseo — October 28th, 2011, 1:18 pm

Re: Email as Username

2011-10-28T13:10:38-05:00

I've modified Jason's script slightly to hide the username field and append a randomly generated number to the username (to reduce the chances of a user registering with a conflicting username; as noted in the code comments, this isn't a fool-proof solution.) I also hid some other elements that I didn't want to show on the registration page.

You can see an example and grab my modified version of the script over here: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15672&p=49082#p49082

Statistics: Posted by Raam Dev — October 28th, 2011, 1:10 pm

Re: Email as Username

2011-10-08T16:03:18-05:00

nice! thanks!

Statistics: Posted by antseo — October 8th, 2011, 4:03 pm

Re: Email as Username

2011-10-07T03:56:03-05:00

Thanks for sharing that!

Statistics: Posted by Cristián Lávaque — October 7th, 2011, 3:56 am

Re: Email as Username

2011-10-07T01:51:34-05:00

I'm using a plugin in conjunction with s2member Pro to allow users to log in with either their email address OR their username:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email-login/

Statistics: Posted by sonora — October 7th, 2011, 1:51 am

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-14T10:40:58-05:00

This worked for BuddyPress:

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/email-login-randomized-user-urls-solution/

Statistics: Posted by bsowards — September 14th, 2011, 10:40 am

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-06T12:32:29-05:00

okay, no worries. Thanks!

Statistics: Posted by antseo — September 6th, 2011, 12:32 pm

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-06T12:22:48-05:00

Per Jason's comment, wordpress core doesn't allow it.

There's no attachment yet, I haven't made the plugin yet.

Statistics: Posted by bsowards — September 6th, 2011, 12:22 pm

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-04T14:56:10-05:00

I didn't see an attachment. Are you referring to the script above?

So with regard to the username, I guess I don't why the email can't be used since it's a unique identifier?

Statistics: Posted by antseo — September 4th, 2011, 2:56 pm

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-04T11:12:29-05:00

You upload this into wp-content/mu-plugins/s2hacks.php but put it outside the tags.

Once i have this plugin built I'll upload the notification here, probably will take a few weeks.

Statistics: Posted by bsowards — September 4th, 2011, 11:12 am

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-04T10:46:23-05:00

Thanks bsowards. so what are the steps then to making that script work using the s2member profile shortcode?

Statistics: Posted by antseo — September 4th, 2011, 10:46 am

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-04T09:41:12-05:00

This doesn't make the email address the username. Per Jason's earlier comment, that isn't a good idea since so many plugins rely on the username to validate properly - and having an "@" in the username would violate it.

So... this code snippet is for auto-generating usernames instead. As of right now it doesn't appear to validate that the username is available. If we added that then you could have this script auto-generate a username, set username to "display:none," and then use the "Email as Login" plugin.

Effecctively, this would make the email the username as far as the user is concerned, without hacking Wordpress.

I think this will be my next plugin...

Statistics: Posted by bsowards — September 4th, 2011, 9:41 am

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-04T01:54:38-05:00

Hi Jason. I built out that dir and page but when I try to sign up as a member, I don't see the username as the email. What am I doing wrong?

Statistics: Posted by antseo — September 4th, 2011, 1:54 am

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-02T23:00:20-05:00

Very cool!

Statistics: Posted by Cristián Lávaque — September 2nd, 2011, 11:00 pm

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-02T20:58:34-05:00

Thanks Jason, very cool, appreciate the code!

Statistics: Posted by bsowards — September 2nd, 2011, 8:58 pm

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-02T20:53:00-05:00

I went ahead and finished this up for anyone that wants to use it.

Create this directory and file:
/wp-content/mu-plugins/email-to-username.php

Code:: add_action ("login_head", "s2_email_to_username", 1000); function s2_email_to_username () { ?> (function ($) /* Wraps this `$ = jQuery` routine. */ { $.fn.swapWith = function (to) /* Utility extension for jQuery. */ { return this.each (function () { var $to = $ (to).clone (true), $from = $ (this).clone (true); $(to).replaceWith ($from), $ (this).replaceWith ($to); }); }; /**/ $(document).ready (function () /* Handles email-to-username on keyup. */ { var email = 'input#user_email', login = 'input#user_login'; $(email).closest ('p').swapWith ($ (login).closest ('p')), $ (email).keyup (function () { $(login).val ($.trim ($ (email).val ().split (/@/)[0].replace (/[^\w]/gi, ''))); }); }); }) (jQuery); } ?>

* Please make sure there are no extra spaces/tabs/line breaks before or after the tags.

Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — September 2nd, 2011, 8:53 pm

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-02T19:28:57-05:00

Thanks for the heads up on this thread Cristián.

@bsowards: I would advise against trying to modify the WordPress core in this regard, because many areas of WordPress, and almost all plugins rely on a strict Username validation and sanitation, which would not expect nor allow characters found in email addresses, such as the @ symbol. This becomes even more of an issue in a Multisite Network installation of WordPress.

Instead, you might try pre-populating the Username field, via JavaScript. Perhaps using jQuery to fill the Username field with only the first part of the email address being typed in ( i.e. johndoe22@example.com ), would automatically populate the Username field with: johndoe22, and then the User would have the ability to change it if they like something better. This would need to be custom coded ( just a few lines ), and then connected via the Hook login_head for the WordPress core.

Statistics: Posted by Jason Caldwell — September 2nd, 2011, 7:28 pm

Re: Email as Username

2011-09-01T22:08:17-05:00

I imagine it should be possible, although I haven't done it myself. Have you searched the hooks related to registration? It won't just be a matter of populating the username with the email field, but also making it validate as a username. Here's a good reference for WP hooks: http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks

I hope that helps.

Statistics: Posted by Cristián Lávaque — September 1st, 2011, 10:08 pm

Email as Username

2011-09-01T10:00:02-05:00

Searched the web for a few days on this one, no luck. You guys are awesome, so I figured I'd ask.

Is there a recommended way to make the username field for registration accept an email address?

Rather not deal with users trying to guess what username they should pick.

Hooks/function.php works for me as an approach.

Statistics: Posted by bsowards — September 1st, 2011, 10:00 am