email address as username?

In the last couple of days we’ve had users create their accounts making their email address their user name. How can we prevent this/ turn off this capability?

Do you have a particular reason to not want email address as username? I have seen sites where that is automatically my username. Just curious (i would not have an answer to your question either)

Users may be using their work emails or want /need to change it which is not possible of course :-)

Ah…makes sense. Thanks. I would not have thought of it.

Hi Michaela.

I don’t think an email address would be a valid WP username because of the @. I just tried it and got this error “Only lowercase letters (a-z) and numbers are allowed.”

Cristian, with my plugin s2M+MC, it will use the email address as a username if the member registers through the MC registration form instead of the WP form. And it is working. I wonder if that limitation of only alphanumerical characters is not only for going from WP?

to be clear, we’re using s2m for user registrations. I would like to DIS-allow users being able to use their email address as their user name… is this possible with s2m?

Michaela,

No, that is not possible. s2Member is a WordPress plugin and WordPress requires that all accounts have a unique email address.

let me put it this way… using s2 is it possible to not allow special characters such as @ in a username… i.e. only letters and numbers…

Hi Michaela,

If you use s2members pro forms for registration then yes they will not allow special characters.

If your using wordpress’s registration (wp-login.php?action=register), which I presume you are, then there is no easy way to disallow special characters, you may be able to find a plugin that does it, or you”ll need to do some custom coding.

If you get someone to do some custom coding there is a built in wordpress feature that sanitizes usernames that you should be able to hook into so that would be the place to start

<?php sanitize_user( $username, $strict ) ?>

Thank you!