Submitting duplicate email in profile edit does not result in error message

#1

If I edit my (public user) profile and attempt to change my email to an email that is already in the system, when I submit the message I see indicates a successful edit, but my profile still shows the old email - it doesn’t get updated.

I should see an error message if my email is a duplicate.

According to my developer:

Not an error apparently, just the way the plugin was built.
The Profile page we are using is handled by an s2member Shortcode that handles the profile updates.
Validation is mostly done by JS and you will see no PHP errors in there.

Is this something you’re aware of, and that might be fixed in a future release? Or should we be seeing an error message?

#2

Hi Robert.

That’s an interesting point. I don’t remember having seen it brought up before.

Fortunately it wouldn’t be a common issue, which would probably be once in many months, if not years, or ever. It’s not usual that someone enters the same email address that is already in use in another account of the same site.

I will add it to my list of things to check when I can. The pro-form may not know immediately that the email address is already in use, but after submission there could be an error message.

Thanks for finding and reporting it! :slight_smile: