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[resolved] Changing the @name given on signup (5 posts)

Started 5 months, 1 week ago by: horroruk

  • Profile picture of horroruk HorrorUK said 5 months, 1 week ago:

    I’m using WHMCS Bridge which creates a new user when somebody signs up to WHMCS.

    This is great, but because it uses the email as the signup name, which can easily be changed to whatever the user wants, the @name given is pretty much the email address (such as @userdomain-com).

    This isn’t good as it is giving spammers a field day, being able to figure out so many email addresses on the site.

    Is there a way to either use only the first X amount of characters in the user name or, better still, giving the user the option to change the @name, even if they can only do it one time.

    Is this possible?

    Thanks,

    Joe

  • Profile picture of modemlooper modemlooper said 5 months, 1 week ago:

    http://buddydev.com/buddypress/allow-your-users-to-change-their-username-on-your-buddypress-based-site/

  • Profile picture of horroruk HorrorUK said 5 months, 1 week ago:

    Thanks, that’s kind of what I need, but for the @name only, as the user name needs to remain the email so that the bridge will work (WHMCS only allows emails as the user name).

    There isn’t a problem so much with an email being a user name, as the user can change what is shown on the site to whatever they want.

  • Profile picture of horroruk HorrorUK said 5 months, 1 week ago:

    Actually, my apologies, but that did do the job perfectly.

    Thank you.

  • Profile picture of grodanBoll grodanBoll said 2 months, 3 weeks ago:

    I have installed the pluging and it changeed the @name as it should. but the old links to the member page stoped working. is there any way you can change the whole usernamne and @name so the old links stil works?