Auto create user name at registration

Resolved w-sky
(@w-sky)

3 years, 5 months ago

Hello, only for the reason to make the registration form easier to use, I want to remove or hide the user name field from the registration form. But then a user name has to be created automatically. Is this possible?

It would be nice to have simple user names, for example, first letter of first name + dot + last name. (+ a counting number if a name already exists).

Or maybe simply user name = email address, if that is allowed in WP? The page https://docs.ultimatemember.com/article/87-adding-a-registration-form says that I must add either the username field or the username/email field to the registration form. Does this mean, when I use the latter, that the user names of the registrants will be same as email address?

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(@missveronicatv)

You can try this code snippet making usernames like: “a.smith” and “a.smith625”:

add_filter( 'um_add_user_frontend_submitted', 'um_autocreate_username', 10, 1 );

function um_autocreate_username( $args ) {

    if( $args['mode'] == 'register' ) {
        if( function_exists( 'mb_substr' )) {
            $first_name_char = mb_substr( $args['first_name'], 0, 1 );
            $username = mb_strtolower( sanitize_text_field( $first_name_char . '.' . $args['last_name'] ));
        } else {
            $first_name_char = substr( $args['first_name'], 0, 1 );
            $username = strtolower( sanitize_text_field( $first_name_char . '.' . $args['last_name'] ));
        }
        
        $args['user_login'] = $username;
        while( username_exists( $args['user_login'] )) {
            $args['user_login'] = $username . rand( 100, 999 );
        }
    }
    return $args;
}

Install the code snippet to your active theme’s functions.php file or use the “Code Snippets” plugin.

https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/code-snippets/

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andrewshu

(@andrewshu)

3 years, 5 months ago

Hi @w-sky

This thread has been inactive for a while so we’re going to go ahead and mark it Resolved.

Please feel free to re-open this thread if any other questions come up and we’d be happy to help. 🙂

Regards

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