Author Without an Email?

  • blueprintmagazine

    (@blueprintmagazine)


    14 years, 4 months ago

    Is it possible to create an author profile without needing to input an e-mail? The site I’m operating has many informal contributors, making the regular WordPress registration process (with an e-mail, etc.) inappropriate. Can I somehow create a “dummy” author account without an e-mail, so I can sort the content of my site by author? Thank you.

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  • ladylynnet

    (@ladylynnet)

    14 years, 4 months ago

    I’m in a similar situation and haven’t found a plugin for eliminating the need for an email address, but this works pretty well for creating multiple accounts with the same email address: http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/allow-multiple-accounts/

    So far as I can tell it’s working great on my installation of 2.8.6. Only problem I ran into was a multiple email address error when trying to edit users’ accounts after they’d been created (to change roles, etc.) Fixed easily by commenting out lines 177-178 of /wp-admin/includes/user.php

    scarlettpromotions

    (@scarlettpromotions)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Hi ladylynnet,

    I am using version 2.9.2 and I would love to comment out the lines that you are referencing, but I think the numbering is different (this is my 177-178).

    * Check that the user login name and password is correct.
    * @since 0.71

    Can you please let me know what code I am commenting out? This is exactly what I need! 🙂 Thanks, Kari

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