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1. deanes02
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello, When a user registers for my site they get sent an unbelievably complicated password, which no one can remember.

   I know they can copy and paste, log in and then change their password, but they don't and I get loads of enquiries.

   Is there any way, maybe via a plugin, or some hacky code that I can tell wordpress to send my users something a bit easier (and yes, i know, insecure) to remember?

   Please help, I can't be the first to want to do this, but i have searched and searched with no joy :)

   Thanks!

2. deanes02
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   actually, can i change that to a hack way please! I'm using bbpress as well and it also generates these super complicated passwords.

   Thanks

3. deanes02
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   here's the answer --

   in wp-includes/pluggable.php - turn off special chars, reduce the length and reduce the amount of chars it can randonly select from...

   function wp_generate_password($length = 5, $special_chars = false) {
   	$chars = 'ABCDEFGH23456789';
   	if ( $special_chars )
   		$chars .= '!@#$%^&*()';
   
   	$password = '';
   	for ( $i = 0; $i < $length; $i++ )
   		$password .= substr($chars, wp_rand(0, strlen($chars) - 1), 1);
   	return $password;
   }

   for bbPress you do a similar thing in \forums\bb-includes\functions.bb-pluggable.php

   function bb_generate_password( $length = 5, $special_chars = false ) {
   	//return WP_Pass::generate_password( $length, $special_chars );
   		$chars = 'abcd23456789';
     	if ( $special_chars )
     		$chars .= '!@#$%^&*()';
   
     	$password = '';
     	for ( $i = 0; $i < $length; $i++ )
     		$password .= substr($chars, rand(0, strlen($chars) - 1), 1);
     	return $password;
   }

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