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1. gplatt
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   I'd like to hide the username field all together for registration and login and just use email.

   Could you give me some pointers to accomplish this please? I obviously need to hide the username fields on your screen and then assign the value programmatically, however I haven't been able to get this to work.

   Many thanks
   Guy

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simplemodal-login/

2. Eric Martin
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The easiest way to do this might be to add the following code to your theme's functions.php file:

   function mytheme_login_form($form) {
   	return str_replace('Username', 'Email', $form);
   }
   add_filter('simplemodal_login_form', 'mytheme_login_form');
   
   function mytheme_authenticate_username_password($user, $username, $password) {
   	$user = get_user_by_email($username);
   	if ($user) {
   		$username = $user->user_login;
   	}
   
   	return wp_authenticate_username_password(null, $username, $password);
   }
   remove_filter('authenticate', 'wp_authenticate_username_password', 20, 3);
   add_filter('authenticate', 'mytheme_authenticate_username_password', 20, 3);

   The code above will change Username to Email and then use the email to try and retrieve the user.

   This doesn't include email validation and your client-side messages may still say username instead of email...but it's a start.

3. gplatt
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Many many thanks for the help. I'll go see what I can do.

4. MG7282
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This is great, but it doesn't remove the UserName field from 'Registration'. How can it me removed there as well?

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