Registration Form Setup

  • Resolved adamj16

    (@adamj16)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hi – I have a help question that I have not found an answer to in your documentation or here…

    Concerning the username, display name and email fields while setting up the registration form – depending on the different field choices made, I assume the following would be the default cases:

    1) If I only use the email field, email will be used for login.

    2) If I include email and username on the form then either can be used for login.

    3) If I include email and display name on the form, the user will use their email to log in and their display name will show whenever the user is referenced on the website (e.g. as the name on comments) i.e. the email address will not be displayed anywhere on the front end (other than on the user account).

    This would be the expected behaviour, but can you confirm, please? I will appreciate your answer – it will save quite some testing time.

    Many thanks!

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  • Rahul Gandhi

    (@wpdev10)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    Yes, that’s partially correct but when the email is used it will only take the part before @ instead of full email as a username.

    Regards,
    Patrik

    Thread Starter adamj16

    (@adamj16)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Patrik,

    Many thanks for your reply. Based on what you said I am not quite sure what would happen in my case 2, for completeness – can you update/correct the 3 cases below please:

    1) email only on the registration form
    – email used for login
    – email part before @ used to display user name on the website

    2) email and username on the registration form
    – either email or username used for login
    – [?] used to display user name

    3) email and display name on the registration form
    – email used for login
    – display name used to display user name

    Thanks again,
    Adam

    Rahul Gandhi

    (@wpdev10)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    1) email part before @ will be used for the username and will be used for login.
    2) username will be used for login
    3) Display name excluding space will be used as username and if not provided then email part before @ will be used for the username and will be used for login.

    In all cases, if there is no Display Name field then it will take a first name and last name as a Display name and if no first name and last name are used then it will take username as a display name. The display name is optional but the username is mandatory so it will be taken as per the case above.

    Regards,
    Patrik

    Thread Starter adamj16

    (@adamj16)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Patrik – thanks, that helps.

    I will let you know if I have any other questions.

    Best,
    Adam

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