BP Xtra Signup Version 1.4
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Hey all,
I just uploaded version 1.3 of my plugin BP Xtra Signup.
This version includes a few small bug fixes, a couple beauty fixes and 2 new features.
Feature 1 is a ajax username availability checker, which is heavily based on this post by Brajesh Singh:
http://buddydev.com/buddypress/creating-a-buddypress-wordpress-username-availability-checker-for-your-site/I thought it’d make a nice addition and I had implemented a modified version of this on a recent project, so I added it to the plugin. Hope you don’t mind, Brajesh. You’ve been given full credits for the code!
The 2nd feature is the addition of the standard password strength checker you get on the user pages in the WP backend.
Both features can be turned on or off individually.
One other thing I changed is, that the checkbox to sign up to a Mailchimp newsletter is unchecked by default now. Some legal bodies in certain countries might argue that new users are generally lazy and don’t really read everything that’s on a page and then are quite surprised and might sue you for getting ‘spammed’ by emails from Mailchimp. I might make this an option in the next version, if people really want the old way back.
Enjoy!
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very useful plugin! Thanks
No worries, Bowe
Glad you like it!Most social networks only accept users over the age of 13, so the next release will include a date of birth check. Should be online within a day or two…
Well, now that you brought it up, I kind of agree. It never occured to me that some users might be put off by the ‘Mismatch’ from the off, but I guess you can never be too carefull, when it comes to your users
JS isn’t really my strength and the JS I did use is straight from WP core, but I’ll have a look anyways. MIght learn something along the way…I think we need a built-in (wp-core) way to concatinate all scripts (and styles) added through wp_enqueue_script ( or wp_enqueue_style respectively). There are some plugins that do that, but none of em have ever worked 100% for me. I am pretty sure Drupal has a way of doing it. You are right, these requests keep building up…
Haven’t looked at Drupal in a while, probably worth checking how they handle things. I might try and grab a few minutes in the morning and see if there’s a better way of doing the matching, although my jQuery/JS skills have become sadly rusty over the last year.
It’s easy for us to overlook how things are perceived by less experienced users, I knew instantly the password would match when I had finished typing but I also knew I was typing the exact same password so my experience is not a useful guideline? I know users that would be thrown, try a few times then think they had mistyped the original, changed that and now be in a mess
Just been having a play around, although can’t yet see an approach to change the mismatch notice when > 0 characters I did add in a stronger warning on username password matches.
I changed //password1 == username to return ‘badPassUsername’ leaving ‘badPass’ to work for the score < 40
Added a new var badPassUsername = 6
added new ‘case 6’ to the switch and made relevant adjustments to the var pwsL10n in bpxs-core.php
so now on my copy a username == password1 match informs the user the password is insecure as username matches password, that’s the polite version anyway
What I wanted to work further on is to then halt the process until user had made a change as at the minute despite the warning the registration will still submit that numpty password.
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