A while back I was able to change the user-name in the wp_users table without problem. I noticed today that is not the case, or at least not with the super-admin user role. How can I adjust the user-name for a super-admin? I’m simply changing a user name first character from uppercase to lowercase. It’s … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Your question should be specific to WordPress. Generic PHP/JS/HTML/CSS questions might be better asked at Stack Overflow or another appropriate site of the Stack Exchange network. Third party plugins and themes are off topic. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question a) I would … Read more
WordPress dashboard offers user the opportunity to choose whether their name is output as Firstname Lastname or several other options with Firstname Lastname order the default. I would like that default changed to Lastname Firstname. Can anyone suggest how it can be done? 1 Answer 1 AFAIK the default option in the display name dropdown … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Your question should be specific to WordPress. Generic PHP/JS/SQL/HTML/CSS questions might be better asked at Stack Overflow or another appropriate Stack Exchange network site. Third party plugins and themes are off topic, they are better asked about at their developers’ support routes. Closed 6 … Read more
i am trying to get a new user an auto assigned sequence based username(non editable by user) while registration. so it will be starting from 0000000001 and so on, i have tried certain codes but my registration form went down. request for help. 1 Answer 1 This all depends on how users are being registered … Read more
As the title says. When users register with white spaces in their usernames, if you try to go to their author page, you get a 404 error. Is there a way to fix the redirect? or should I add a filter to prevent the use of white spaces in usernames? The site is new, so … Read more
I’m working on a Woocommerce website and I just came across this problem: when I go to Account page and I’m asked to create a new account, in the form there isn’t the “Username” field. There are just these fields: Email (default of Woocommerce) Password (default of Woocommerce) School number (custom field added with FMA … Read more
I’m trying to update user_login in the wp_users table, to force update a user’s username to their email address on submission of a front end edit profile form. I know WordPress forbids this via the wp_update_user function so I am trying to use SQL with wpdb functions. Here is what I have, and it is … Read more
How do I display the commentor’s first name and last name in the comments?… rather than their username as currently shows. 3 Answers 3 This will get you a first name + last name combination if available, or just the first name or last name if that’s all your user submitted. This assumes you’re interested … Read more
I am using WordPress 4.9.4 in a WordPress Multisite, and I need to allow users to register using their email address as username. Looking at the code I found that what prevents me from accomplish that is that in the ms-functions.php there is a regular expression filtering usernames that have other characters than a-z, so … Read more
