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1. Jeremiah82
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi everybody.

   I am trying to set up a new website for an already running community.

   I put the basic stuff together (WP 2.9.2, BuddyPress 1.2, bbpress (stable)).

   Now, starting testing, i noticed something which is strange for me as a WP novice.

   I tried to register with a username containing spaces.
   The form told me, that this is an invalid username.
   Ok, fine. There will be a solution somewhere. But searching all WP, BP and BB forums i couldn't find what i was looking for.

   The problem is, i would like to switch a complete community from an old system to wordpress. If wordpress is not capable of using spaces and other non-alphanumeric problem, i would get into real trouble and might have to drop the idea of using wordpress (We have 40K Users and most of them use non-alphanumeric characters).

   My questions:
   Is there a way to use non-alphanumerics?
   Why is there such a restriction?
   What would be the side-effect if i hack that stuff so it might work with non-alphanumerics?

   TIA

2. richarduk
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I just tried this out on my own site and had no trouble registering the name blah blah

   Check Admin Panel / General / Anyone can register, and set your new user default role immediately under that.

3. Jeremiah82
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi and thanks for the reply.

   Both settings have been enabled before.

   I just rechecked to be sure and tried again.
   It is still not possible to register with a Username that has spaces, non-alphanumeric or even uppercase letters.

   Does WP have such a restriction?
   Or do i need to take a closer look at any other component?

4. Jeremiah82
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Ok, i could locate the problem.

   It's buddypress!

   WP itself does at least acceppt scores, underscores and spaces.

   So this is done. If someone has the same problem: Look at buddypress!

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