Email as username by default

  • Resolved Pierre

    (@ierpe)


    6 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I would like to hide the username field on the registration field, and use the email as the default username.

    Is it possible?

    Kind regards

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  • Gabriel Berzescu

    (@gabrielberzescu)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Hello there,

    Yes, this is possible.

    Go to Dashboard -> Profile Builder -> Settings -> Allow Users to Log in With

    And select Email only.

    Counter-intuitively, this also affects the registration form.

    With the best of regards,
    Gabriel

    Thread Starter Pierre

    (@ierpe)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you for the fast answer, that solved it!

    Gabriel Berzescu

    (@gabrielberzescu)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Glad to help @ierpe 🙂

    Cyclopaat

    (@cyclopaat)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    I’ve been scratching my head trying to get the email address as the user name, but it doesn’t work as expected.

    I can create a user in the back end and set the username to be exactly the same as the email address, but when I use the PB form, it converts the address to something without the at-sign and dot.

    I.e. test@somedomain.com will become test-somedomain-com.

    This happens when I chose ’email only’, which hides the username field from the form, but also when I ‘fake’ the username field with a ‘reply email address’ label, to force the user to enter the email address twice.

    Am I overlooking something?

    Thanks!

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by Cyclopaat. Reason: Addded different scenarios
    Cyclopaat

    (@cyclopaat)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    To answer my own question (this usually happens after you post it):

    I think a File Manager plugin is the culprit here. As that creates user folders for up- and downloads, the username would not be allowed to have those symbols.

    I already had the option to create user folders switched off, but I it looks like the usernames are still converted if they are in fact the same as the email address.

    I have also posted a question on the support page of that plugin’s creator…

    Gabriel Berzescu

    (@gabrielberzescu)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Hello there @cyclopaat

    Yes, this is expected behavior. It’s how the plugin works. The username does get changed to testsomedomain-com

    With the best of regards,
    Gabriel

    Cyclopaat

    (@cyclopaat)

    6 years, 6 months ago

    Unfortunately, it is not really necessary. In the meantime, I have found that the other plugin only creates user directories that way, since no characters like that can be in a directory name.

    However, for your plugin, I do not see this need and it can be ‘fixed’ by putting a piece of code in your (child) theme’s function.php – you even list that on your own site, although the other developer had to point me to it (https://www.cozmoslabs.com/docs/profile-builder-2/developers-knowledge-base/login-logout-register/change-username-format-loggin-email/)

    Anyway, I have worked around it as prescribed and maybe you will consider making this permanent.

    Thanks!

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by Cyclopaat.
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