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Wordpress User Name Limitations
I need to know what the wp specifications for the usernames are. Like allowed minimum and maximum length, are special characters like ü,ö,ä,ß accepted,..?
Unfortunately I couldn't find any insight on ...
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Pre-populate Username Field
I have a strange request, but hopefully it's doable. I want to be able to have several logos, for my clients, on my site. Depending on what logo they click it takes them to the login page with the ...
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How to allow wordpress to create username with symbols like +
I want to allow users to create username with + symbol. but wordpess removing the symbol by the register validation process.
If I gave username as abcd+123, the user registered with username as ...
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Update user_login to change username
I'm trying to update user_login in the wp_users table, to force update a user's username to their email address on submission of a front end edit profile form.
I know WordPress forbids this via the ...
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Is it possible to incorporate username in a login redirect?
I'm using WP to work as the CMS for a website which will be provided to users of a number of different products. I've successfully created a function which will redirect users based on their role:
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allow only lowercase user registrations
I'm trying to get allow only lowercase usernames are valid usernames in my wordpress blog.
I managed to write a function but it does not seem to work.
add_filter('validate_username' , 'simple_user', ...
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Invalidate username if it contains @ symbol
I would like to let the user login either using username or email.
The only way to find the email is by detecting @ symbol using strpos.
However WordPress allow @ symbol in username too.
Can ...
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How do I display user name, role and site name using HTML tags inside a dashboard notification?
Here's what I have so far as my notification, but I can't find any information around how to input the user's name, role and site name within those sections. You can see where they are supposed to go. ...
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How to check username availability with ajax at registration
I'm using buddypress which uses its own template form register.php for registration at http://mysite.com/register. I'm looking for a way to show the user whether or not their entered username is ...
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Changing the username character limit from four to less characters
I want to create a user account on my multi-site installation of Wordpress with a username less than 4 characters. But since Wordpress has a limit of usernames at least being 4 characters, this error ...
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How can i change the name order in the admin?
When i go to wp-admin/users.php, in the second column i can see the users full name, however, its not in the right order. In Hungary, we use a different name order: ...
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Showing the user's username in registration email or activation page with BuddyPress
a) I would like the person's username to be included in their activation email once they have registered.
e.g. Activation email would look like:
Thanks for registering! To complete the activation of ...
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How to recover lost username?
I have a blog (www.ahsrocketlaunch.org) and need to update to the latest version of wordpress. However, I cannot remember the username I used to set up the wordpress account. therefore, I can't ...
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Function to change a label (Username) in a core WordPress File (wp-includes/general-template.php)
Would like to change
'label_username' => __( 'Username' ) on line 258 of wp-includes/general-template.php
to
'label_username' => __( 'Username or Email' )
Changing core files is a not recommended ...
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Calling User Nickname
I am currently calling a user's nicename in a function I have:
$users = $user_query->get_results();
foreach( $users as $user ):
echo $user->user_nicename;
I'm trying to call ...
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How do I display logged-in username IF logged-in?
I'm working on creating some text that says 'Login' to users that are not logged in, and the user's username or display name when logged in.
It seems like it should be an easy problem to solve, and ...
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Why do people use “admin” username by default? [closed]
WordPress users use "admin" username by default to login to admin panel because WordPress suggest this username at the end off install.
But "admin" username is the most common username to brute-force ...
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One time username change from frontend?
I'm using facebook connect plugin.
Usernames generated by that plugin look like firstname_lastname. I mean it looks ugly.
I would like to give the privilege to my users to change the username BUT ...
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how to remotely check a username / password from within a plugin
people need a user account on my site to be able to download a plugin. I want to add an activation function in the plugin so a user must supply their username and password the first time they use the ...
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Display first name instead of username
I have a plugin that outputs username after login, I want it to display first name instead. Here is the code that does it.
global $userdata,$user_identity;
get_currentuserinfo();
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How to prevent certain usernames from being registered?
How can i prevent or blacklist a list of usernames that i don't want users to register with?
And can I add a message if they try to register with one of those names that says 'this username has been ...
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Alphanumeric usernames and error message for it
I'm facing a problem where I haven't seen proper answer anywhere.
What I need help with is this:
How can I prevent my users registering non-alphanumeric usernames?
To be exact, I could prevent it by ...
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Where can I find documentation on what characters are allowed in user names and why?
I would love to be able to use spaces in usernames, but this does not seem possible. Is there a writeup in the codex or somewhere that explains what characters are allowed and why it was restricted to ...
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Can anything go wrong if I let users change their usernames?
We are using email addresses as usernames in a current WP 3.1 project.
I need to allow users to change their usernames and email addresses, and will build in the option to do so.
I am just wondering ...
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Allowing an email as the username?
Is it possible to allow people to utilize their email as their username?
