Title: Email as Username for WP-Members Author: Stevish Published: May 6, 2014 Last modified: December 4, 2014 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/email-as-username-for-wp-members.svg) # Email as Username for WP-Members By [Stevish](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stevish/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/email-as-username-for-wp-members.1.3.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-as-username-for-wp-members/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-as-username-for-wp-members/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-as-username-for-wp-members/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-as-username-for-wp-members/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-as-username-for-wp-members/) ## Description Requires WP-Members to be in use. Uses members’ emails as their usernames. Removes the need to create a username (if wp-members is in use). Changes or removes appropriate items from forms, and adds the email address as the username. If WP-Members is no longer in use, there are plenty of plugins that offer this capability for WP’s native registration and login functions **How it works:** This plugin doesn’t do much of anything with the login form. It deals with the WP-Members registration form, removing username as a field to fill out and filling it automatically with the email entered. For backward compatibility( for users that were created before this plugin was installed), the plugin will try looking up the username by email if they log in with that instead of their username. The plugin also does some funky things with subscribers: 1. It doesn’t allow them access to the dashboard. This is to keep them from changing their email address (and un-syncing their username/email) 2. It turns off the admin bar for them. Let’s face it, they don’t need that anyways. Props to [Beau Lebens](http://dentedreality.com.au/) for his [Email Login](http://dentedreality.com.au/projects/wp-plugin-email-login/) plugin. I stole his function (from version 4.6.3) to help with backward compatibility. ## Installation 1. Make sure the WP-Members plugin is installed and activated 2. Turn the WordPress native Registration off (users can still register through WP- Members) 3. Upload the `/email-as-username-wpmem` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 4. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress ## FAQ Will this work without WP Members activated? I highly doubt it. This plugin does not attempt to control the native WordPress registration ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7db43e6bc7e1a78a5b6111c8a1afae84f0ee0a09c45f386cdad9ff483d1439ea? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great and working under 5.0.2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-and-working-under-5-0-2/)󠁿 [ylhbruxelles](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ylhbruxelles/) December 21, 2018 Just posting this to let everyone know that it is working perfectly under WP5.0.2. I was a little afraid considering it hasn't been updated (and reviewed) since long. But it does the job perfectly. Great idea, thanks to those who did it (long time ago) 😉 ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1cfcf90d1b2ccaef4526dcd46f00423b078740f1a59b91b053cc44419a64e3a0? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-5021/)󠁿 [art-at-tec](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lrnz/) September 3, 2016 1 reply Found this Plugin while googleing for a solution – you saved me hours of work ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f7ff14b2d6e31d983928d2225a17de5db2de1e1f6574424459f6944c1b0fe503? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Works as advertised!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-as-advertised-307/)󠁿 [anphira](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anphira/) September 3, 2016 Worked great. Thank you! P.S. – Just remember if you use caching you need to totally clear out your caches to get the updated form. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9ab32d558a96c1cf72d5fb0e6d8c9eefd0f72e8a8d3fc9a68e0459cbff4a07c3? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[GOOD](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-1551/)󠁿 [zhuchenguang](https://profiles.wordpress.org/zhuchenguang/) September 3, 2016 GOOD [ Read all 8 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-as-username-for-wp-members/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Email as Username for WP-Members” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Stevish ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stevish/) [Translate “Email as Username for WP-Members” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/email-as-username-for-wp-members) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email-as-username-for-wp-members/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/email-as-username-for-wp-members/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/email-as-username-for-wp-members/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/email-as-username-for-wp-members/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.3 * Add internationalization (Italian Language Files) * Add options page * General WP coding standard compliance * Thanks to [realloc](https://profiles.wordpress.org/realloc) for all these additions and changes #### 1.2.2 * Fix argument missing error #### 1.2.1 * Fix password reset for when username != email #### 1.2 * Add ability to login with email even if username is different (Thanks to [Beau Lebens](http://dentedreality.com.au/)) #### 1.0 * Initial Release ## Meta * Version **1.3** * Last updated **12 years ago** * Active installations **700+** * WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.0.38** * Tag * [users](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/users/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-as-username-for-wp-members/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 8 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-as-username-for-wp-members/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-as-username-for-wp-members/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-as-username-for-wp-members/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-as-username-for-wp-members/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-as-username-for-wp-members/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-as-username-for-wp-members/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/email-as-username-for-wp-members/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Stevish ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/stevish/) ## Support Got something to say? 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