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What can the username contain and how many letters, what characters etc?


  • jemmatates
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    @jemmatates

    8 years, 8 months ago

    My default register page does not give any hint to what the username can contain and how long it should be. Can someone give me the full list / hint of the amount of characters and type of characters it can contain please? So I can add it to the label for the user’s knowledge. I have hunted around online but I can’t get a definitive answer.

    Also, when choosing a password a very complicated one it still says it’s too weak is there anyway to change this ‘strengthometre’ setting 🙂 ?

    Thanks for any help

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  • jemmatates
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    @jemmatates

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Ah, on another post I found this for the hint of the password:

    Hint: The password should be at least seven characters long. To make it stronger, use upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols like ! ” ? $ % ^ & ).’ “

    I tried it and using those characters I get a ‘strong’ password. It is still a little over zealous though! As my previous test password is considered strong on all other sites except buddypress which gives the value of ‘very weak’ so I would still like to change this setting to be more relaxed but at least I am a little closer to understanding how they measure the strength of the password.


    Henry Wright
    Moderator

    @henrywright

    8 years, 8 months ago

    sanitize_user() is used on the username at signup time so it should be alphanumeric characters plus _ space . – * and @.

    Ref: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/sanitize_user


    Henry Wright
    Moderator

    @henrywright

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Update: With reference to usernames on the wordpress.org forum:

    Since [dotorg11555] only a-z and 0-9 are allowed for usernames.

    Ref: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1308#comment:13

    I’m not sure if this change will extend to the WordPress platform and BuddyPress.


    Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    @djpaul

    8 years, 8 months ago

    No, but WordPress multisite and regular WordPress have different character restrictions in the username.


    Henry Wright
    Moderator

    @henrywright

    8 years, 8 months ago

    …but WordPress multisite and regular WordPress have different character restrictions in the username.

    Nice 🙁


    Paul Wong-Gibbs
    Keymaster

    @djpaul

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Tell me about it. Serious PITA 🙂

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