Use email as username

This topic contains 3 replies, has 3 voices. Last updated by Cristián Lávaque 4 years, 2 months ago.

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Posted: Saturday Oct 13th, 2012 at 1:35 am #28301
alancheuk Username: alancheuk
How come usernames cannot have special characters like “.” and “@” in their username? We want users to be able to use their email address as their username. Does this break something?

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Posted: Saturday Oct 13th, 2012 at 8:29 am #28322
Cristián Lávaque Username: Cristian
Hi Alan. Yeah, that’s a limitation in WordPress itself. You may find this thread useful: http://www.primothemes.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=14806 I hope that helps. :)
Posted: Saturday Oct 13th, 2012 at 11:41 am #28341
cassel Username: cassel
There is kind of another way around it. I am using MailChimp and got a plugin developped where the member is actually registering through the MailChimp registration form and the plugin then uses the email address and creates a matching account in the s2Member installation. The plugin is available here: Bidirectional transparent integration/synchronization/bridge of s2Member® with MailChimp® And if you dont need to use MailChimp, just ask the developper if he can skip that part for you.
Posted: Saturday Oct 13th, 2012 at 5:14 pm #28352
Cristián Lávaque Username: Cristian
Nice, Cassel. :)

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