Avoiding users submitting emails as usernames?

#1

Hey guys,

I know WP allows users to log in with their email addresses now, and I have modified our sign-up form with a search-replace to ask people to PLEASE NOT use their email address as their username (there are two fields).

As you might imagine, there is still about 1 user per 100 that just slaps their email in for both fields.

Is it possible to introduce something that only allows alpha-numerics for the username field? I’d say that would be a useful feature for s2M as standard. Currently it isn’t causing a great deal of grief but I know there are other plugins that it can make life hard for.

Thanks!

#2

WordPress allows characters other than alphanumerics in usernames, and s2Member relies on WordPress routines to validate usernames, so s2Member allows them too.

But WordPress also has assigns a “nicename” to every user, which is essentially the username but with lowercase alphanumerics only. So there really isn’t a reason for this to cause a problem for other plugins. They should just use the nicename instead of the username.

#3

Ah okay!

Thanks Tim. I knew WP was fine with @ symbols and a few others but wasn’t sure if it would be to the ongoing detriment of other parts of the site.

I can’t remember where but I recall something about making sure usernames were not emails in s2M documentation. Maybe it was an old forum post that’s no longer applicable.

I’ll let it be for now.
Thanks!