When creating a user in WordPress an email address is required for that user. The website I’m working on requires that users remain anonymous (it’s part of a research study) and I’d consider email to be an identifying piece of data. Users will be added manually, so email is not required to confirm accounts or prevent spam sign-ups.
Am I going to have to provide a fake email address for each account, or is there a way to leave this field blank?
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It’s possible, just no so easily via the Users page without some hackery.
The WordPress API will let you insert users without email addresses, so a little custom plugin to accept a login name and password, and a call to wp_insert_user or wp_update_user should work for you. Unfortunately I don’t have time to code it up for you, but perhaps this will point you in a direction.
$userdata = array ('user_login' => 'someuser', 'user_pass' => 'swordfish');
$new_user_id = wp_update_user( $userdata );