Login with email instead of username

I’ve been noticing this & it seems to be more of a trend for users to assume that when they see a login form they tend to enter in their email & password to try logging in maybe even at time don’t even read the labels of the text fields.

I’m not sure if web apps & other email providers are nourishing this behavior but it’s not good for my s2member install. My users login patterns are only about twice a month, once during the end of the month and another mid month. Enough time to forget a username.

Is there a simple way for me to get around as this is a huge obstacle for my users. I’m losing customers because of the inherent twice a month login behavior as they are trying several times to login thinking they have the wrong password & even after resetting their passwords they still can’t get in due to the wrong username they are using. Then they just cancel their accounts.

I’ve seen wordpress plugins which allow for this functionaality such as: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email-login/

But since these plugins are free I’m afraid of lack of support in the future.

I dont know if this would solve the problem or not but i bought a plugin called MC+s2M that integrates s2M with MailChimp as a user can register through a MC form and get an s2M account created. In that case, it does create the account with the email address as the username.
You can read about this particular plugin on this thread:
http://www.s2member.com/forums/topic/bidirectional-communication-s2m-mailchimp/

It might, or might not solve your problem but it could be a workaround.

I’ve seen wordpress plugins which allow for this functionaality such as: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email-login/

I have seen many Users use this plugin do accomplish this, but s2Member does not provide this functionality, and we do not intend to. Changing the Username layout is changing a core concept of WordPress, and it could cause issues in the future. If you really need this functionality I would say adding this plugin in would be okay, but you’ll need to keep an eye out for incompatibility in the future. As long as it’s just allowing Users to log in with their email addresses, you should be able to disable the plugin if support for it drops.