BuddyPress.org | Tom | Mentions https://buddypress.org/members/zenimot/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning Tom. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:06:55 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 ceb6792a9707bce7fd0d71e46c2fd9c7 Henry Wright replied to the topic Username problems in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/username-problems/#post-240271 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 11:32:00 +0000 @zenimot

If you wanted to, you could disallow spaces in usernames by validating the field during registration. This is how you’d do it:

function zenimot_validate_username() {

$bp = buddypress();

if ( strpos( $_POST['signup_username'], ' ' ) !== false ) {
$bp->signup->errors['signup_username'] = __( 'Spaces are not allowed',…[Read more]

]]> 4b27bd024ce4887134a19f70564bb34b Henry Wright replied to the topic Username problems in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/username-problems/#post-240271 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 11:32:00 +0000 @zenimot

If you wanted to, you could just remove spaces in usernames by validating the field during registration. This is how you’d do it:

function zenimot_validate_username() {

$bp = buddypress();

if ( strpos( $_POST['signup_username'], ' ' ) !== false ) {
$bp->signup->errors['signup_username'] = __( 'Spaces are not allowed',…[Read more]

]]> 4fc0124ba907de7247995b05f04c4aad Henry Wright replied to the topic Username problems in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/username-problems/#post-240271 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 11:32:00 +0000 @zenimot

If you wanted to, you could just remove spaces in usernames by validating the field during registration. This is how you’d do it:

function zenimot_validate_username() {
// Remove spaces from username.
$_POST['signup_username'] = str_replace( ' ', '', $_POST['signup_username'] );
}
add_action( 'bp_signup_pre_validate',…[Read more]

]]> b5a596fd4f6b0bf03ddff07ea8e1fe11 Henry Wright replied to the topic Username problems in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/username-problems/#post-240271 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 11:32:00 +0000 @zenimot

If you wanted to, you could enforce no spaces in usernames by validating the field during registration. This is how you’d do it:

function zenimot_validate_username() {
// Remove spaces from username.
$_POST['signup_username'] = str_replace( ' ', '', $_POST['signup_username'] );
}
add_action( 'bp_signup_pre_validate',…[Read more]

]]> d031379ae4ae236b796ca8ce91faa76e Henry Wright replied to the topic Username problems in the forum How-to & Troubleshooting https://buddypress.org/support/topic/username-problems/#post-240265 Fri, 05 Jun 2015 10:01:00 +0000 Hi @zenimot

See 5185 for some background and a discussion on the topic.

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