Title: Usernames and Multisite
Last modified: May 31, 2020

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# Usernames and Multisite

 *  [jason_hayes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason_hayes/)
 * (@jason_hayes)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-and-multisite/)
 * I’m having issues. I have a website It’s in multisite (because I plan to later
   add more sites to the network). but it’s the default site(not in a subdomain 
   or subdirectory). Also, users of my site are not making a subsite, they are simply
   registering to use the website
 * It doesn’t allow users to register with usernames other than one word, all lowercase
   usernames.
 * I added a must-use plugin that allows uppercase names to be used which I found
   here:
    [https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/allowing-caps-in-usernames-etc/](https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/allowing-caps-in-usernames-etc/)
   However, this won’t allow spaces or hyphens in usernames.
 * Next, I added this to my functions file which I found here:
    [https://christianvarga.com/allow-hyphenated-usernames-wordpress-multisite/](https://christianvarga.com/allow-hyphenated-usernames-wordpress-multisite/)
   But this overrides the first thing I added. It only allows for lowercase usernames
   with hyphens.
 * I need to be able to let users register with:
    1. Uppercase Letters 2. Lowercase
   Letters 3. Numbers 4. Hyphens 5. Spaces
 * Is there any way to do it? I know if I just export the site and make it non-multisite
   I can achieve this because it’s the default WordPress behaviour.

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 *  Thread Starter [jason_hayes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason_hayes/)
 * (@jason_hayes)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-and-multisite/#post-12918314)
 * Next I found this plugin:
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/network-username-restrictions-override/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/network-username-restrictions-override/)
 * However, it says it hasn’t been updated for the last 3 wordpress releases.
 *  Thread Starter [jason_hayes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason_hayes/)
 * (@jason_hayes)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-and-multisite/#post-12918331)
 * This plugin doesn’t appear to work at all any longer.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by [jason_hayes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason_hayes/).
 *  Thread Starter [jason_hayes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason_hayes/)
 * (@jason_hayes)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-and-multisite/#post-12918341)
 * Any help would be great.
 *  Thread Starter [jason_hayes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason_hayes/)
 * (@jason_hayes)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-and-multisite/#post-12918573)
 * Also, I need users to be able to use their email address instead of a username.
 *  [a1dinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a1dinger/)
 * (@a1dinger)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-and-multisite/#post-13329068)
 * Hi, I had the same problem (need to use email addresses as usernames) and found
   that this code worked. You just need to download it, unzip it, rename the folder
   whatever you want and copy it into your WordPress Plugins folder. Hope that helps.
 * [https://gist.github.com/anttiviljami/01611cf3e74f7e7ae7a6](https://gist.github.com/anttiviljami/01611cf3e74f7e7ae7a6)

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 * [usernames](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/usernames/)

 * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [a1dinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a1dinger/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usernames-and-multisite/#post-13329068)
 * Status: not resolved

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