Somehow this one slipped by me. Is it still occurring, if you’re still using the plugin Paul?
Thanks for asking, Michael. I reverted to 4.1.3 and have stayed there. Based on other folks’ reported experience in the forum, I’ve been wary of upgrading. (I was the one who started this thread with 75 replies.)
4.1.3 still chugs along, although a while back it stopped displaying users’ first name – last name (from the profile fields) in the list of held registrations, making it harder to separate spammers (whose names typically read something like “XM LF”) from legitimate registrants.
could you provide a screenshot of that stuff from the last paragraph? So that I can better determine how to approach a resolution. There shouldn’t have been any changes to the table display there that would affect that, so best I can guess without seeing myself is name fields that have a lot of spaces in them.
Would love to hear that 4.2.5 works better for you, but I guess I can’t guarantee quite yet.
Thanks, Michael. Here’s a screenshot.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0oOcY1CjCZDQkNJTXZoRFJmVDg/view?usp=sharing
Until a while ago, the first name and last name of the user would appear in the “Name” column between the avatar and the email address. Nos there’s just space. To verify that a prospective user is legit, I typically cmd-click the avatar to go to the user’s profile in a new tab. I then review how the user completed the registration form. In the past, I wouldn’t even bother doing this for users who showed up with names such as “XM LF”. Since it was obvious that they weren’t legit, I would simply delete them. Now that no name shows up under “Name,” I have to go to every prospective user’s profile page to check if they’re legit.
Regarding the name stuff, we rely on WP user data to fill in the values, as per:
<?php if ( isset( $user ) ) { ?>
<strong><a target="_blank" href="<?php echo $user->user_url; ?>">
<?php echo $user->fullname; ?>
</a></strong>
<?php } else {
echo $user_data->user_login;
} ?>
I think fullname is set from the different parts for the rest of the user profile data, so if they’re not having those filled in, then we simply have nothing to work with. If they are just entering spaces, which could be the case, then there won’t be anything visual to see.
May not be a bad idea to fall back to xprofile data there, I’ll need to check on that one and how much is cross posted to WP profile data.
