Email Address Being Rejecte as Username

Hi there,

On a multisite network I manage, I was just notified by a blog owner that users cannot register to their blog. I checked and it seems valid email addresses are being rejected as a username saying it needs to have only lowercase letters and numbers. WordPress itself does not enforce that policy as it makes no sense whatsoever anyway (email addresses are ideal usernames) and it worked before. I don't have a plugin enforcing such a policy either.

So I tested and reverted back version 1.4 of the User Registration addon and things work normally again.

Is there a specific reason version 1.5 now rejects email addresses as usernames? To me that is a bug as there's no reason I can think of that would justify this and this major change is also not mentioned in the 1.5 changelog that I can see.

Thanks!

Hi David,

I think I need a little more help. I looked at that page and the example is not close to what I need to do. All I want to do is make sure the value entered in the email field is a valid email address and that it is not empty. I guess GF does this validation by default anyway. Then I just need the user registration addon to let the email be used as the username or not reject it because it contains characters other than letters and numbers. Can you point me to an closer example of this or give me additional info that pushes me in the right direction. From that link you gave me I have no idea where to even begin other than create the filter. I have no idea what code should go into it.

Thanks!

Hi Stephane,

Could you give me a couple examples of email addresses used as usernames that are failing for you?

Ah! Nice, this worked for me: http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/upon-update-15-you-cannot-use-the-email-field-to-populate-the-username-field#post-246441