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1. mikejandreau
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   In my testing, I'm seeing that anyone that connects using Yahoo gets a strange username, such as sc_74ec9945a8d71524cc73090700090461

   Any idea why that is, and how we can get a normal username for these folks?

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-connect/

2. geodanny
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   My understanding is that Y! passes that ID when the user has not set a user profile name (http://pulse.yahoo.com/y/profile). The ID you got is the unique ID used by Y! to identify its user through its OAuth/OpenID processes. WP expects and ID and when given a blank name will insert that unique ID as name.

3. thenbrent
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Social connect creates a username by combining the first and last names of a user. If that username already exists and the login isn't for that user (based on email address) then it creates a random email address.

   You'll likely see those usernames in testing, but rarely see them on a live site.

   Currently the offending line is:

   if ( username_exists( $user_login ) ) {
   	$user_login = apply_filters( 'social_connect_username_exists', strtolower("sc_". md5( $social_connect_provider . $sc_provider_identity ) ) );
   }

   For the new version, I've changed this so you can filter the new username.

   $user_login = apply_filters( 'social_connect_username_exists', strtolower("sc_". md5( $social_connect_provider . $sc_provider_identity ) ) );

   To test this, download the development version from here: https://github.com/thenbrent/social-connect/archives/master

   Be sure to check that usernames you create do not already exist.

4. raymasa
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Thanks for a great plugin, works well. Question regarding the username, is it possible to allow user to select their own username, rather than combine first and last names?

   Secondly, when a new user register on my website using social connect via facebook, gmail, etc, neither I nor the user gets a welcome email. Is that possible to do with social connect?

   Thanks,

   Ray

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