Login with Username or Email

Chad Butler · Dec 1, 2018 ·

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Part of the WP-Members 3.2 project involved allowing users to log in using either their username or their email address. This makes the WP-Members Email as Username extension obsolete (which, if you’re wondering, is why it is no longer supported).

However, because all of the translation files still reflect “Username” in the login form field text, I decided to give the translators time to catch up on the language packs. So while you can log in using either a username or an email address, the label on the form only says “Username.”

If you would like to change that, it just requires a simple filter you can add to your theme’s functions.php file:

/**
 * The plugin currently allows login using Username OR Email but
 * the field label still reflects just username (that will be
 * changing when translators catch up on translation). In the 
 * meantime, you can change it with a couple of filters added
 * to your theme's functions.php file.
 */
add_filter( 'wpmem_inc_login_inputs', function( $defaults ) {
    $defaults[0]['name'] = "Username or Email";
    return $defaults;
});
add_filter( 'wpmem_sidebar_form', function( $html ) {
    if ( ! strpos( $html, 'Username or Email' ) ) {
        $html = str_replace( 'Username', 'Username or Email', $html );
    }
    return $html;
});

This topic has 2 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 1 year, 7 months ago by Chad Butler.

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- December 1, 2018 at 9:57 am #16728
  
  Chad Butler
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  Part of the WP-Members 3.2 project involved allowing users to log in using either their username or their email address. This makes the WP-Members Ema
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- September 10, 2019 at 8:44 am #19848
  
  ituk
  Participant
  
  This is very nice to know that the plugin is no longer needed, but after removing it i encountered an issue in the registration process. The thing is i don’t want users to register with a username, only with an email, so I hide the username field with css. it was possible with old plugin because the username field in the registration form wasn’t set as required. after deactivating the plugin it became impossible to register because the required field was hidden. I got this error:
  An invalid form control with name='username' is not focusable.
  
  Thanks,
  Itamar
  - September 11, 2019 at 8:55 am #19887
    
    Chad Butler
    Keymaster
    
    The bottom line is that WP requires a username for a valid user, so at the core level it’s not possible to omit it.
    
    The Email as Username extension overcame this by setting the user’s username as the user’s email address. However, that was not a very clean process in my opinion because WordPress does not allow for the username to be changed. So if a user updated their email address, the extension had to fire a direct SQL query to change the username to the new email address directly, otherwise the username and new email wouldn’t match.
    
    The current versions of WP-Members allow login with username or email address. This is different than setting the email AS the username.
    
    If you want to use the new process but eliminate the username altogether, there would be ways to customize that, but you’d essentially be recreating what’s already in the Email as Username extension. So you may as well use the extension – otherwise, we’re just creating the same process as a customization.
    
    Hope that helps.
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