Title: Additional validation
Last modified: September 3, 2019

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# Additional validation

 *  Resolved [bennettscience](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennettscience/)
 * (@bennettscience)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-validation/)
 * This plugin is great – it made our login refactor much simpler than I was expecting.
 * I’m wondering if there is a way we could work in some additional validation, 
   specifically checking the user email address for a specific structure. I tried
   modifying `clean-login.php` with a little utility script which used regex, but
   I can’t get it to return true, even on a valid input. Any tips on doing this?
   Or even a tip on how to debug more effectively?

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 *  Thread Starter [bennettscience](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennettscience/)
 * (@bennettscience)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-validation/#post-11969674)
 * We worked out a solution that did not require modifying the plugin.
 *  Plugin Author [Alberto Hornero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hornero/)
 * (@hornero)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-validation/#post-11970120)
 * Ouch! [@bennettscience](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennettscience/),
   I did not realise about your previous question. Sorry about that.
 * Would you mind sharing your solution in the case were useful for others?
 * Regards,
 * Alberto.
 *  Thread Starter [bennettscience](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennettscience/)
 * (@bennettscience)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-validation/#post-11971297)
 * It’s okay.
 * I copied the base plugin and added some regex checks in the logic. Because I 
   was in a time crunch, I didn’t modify the settings page and hardcoded for our
   purposes.
 * Do you have a git repo? I’d be happy to get a general setting in there quick 
   to allow people to set a domain for whitelisting and submit a pull request.
 *  Plugin Author [Alberto Hornero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hornero/)
 * (@hornero)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-validation/#post-11971802)
 * Hi [@bennettscience](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bennettscience/)
 * Sure! you can submit the changes here: [https://github.com/ahornero/clean-login](https://github.com/ahornero/clean-login)
 * Alberto.

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 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Alberto Hornero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hornero/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/additional-validation/#post-11971802)
 * Status: resolved