The following untested code should get you started. Basically you add a display target on your form, add some javascript to add the validation when the user leaves the username field, and the server-side code to enqueue the javascript, and register the ajax actions. Let me know what breaks, as I’m sure this will not … Read more
Change Username?
You can add the username to the activation e-mail by adding this code either to the bp-custom.php or to the theme’s functions.php file add_filter(‘bp_core_signup_send_validation_email_message’, ‘add_username_to_activation_email’,10,3); function add_username_to_activation_email($msg, $u_id, $activation_url) { $username = $_POST[‘signup_username’]; $msg .= sprintf( __(“After successful activation, you can log in using your username (%1\$s) along with password you choose during registration process.”, … Read more
AFAIK the default option in the display name dropdown is set to the current value of user display name. So, if we on user creation set display_name to “Lastname Firstname”, then this will be used as default. This can be done hooking user_register: add_action(‘user_register’, ‘last_name_first’); function last_name_first( $uid ) { remove_action(‘user_register’, ‘last_name_first’); $user = new … Read more
Ok I found out the solution. Because, as I said, WooCommerce has it’s own hooks, first of all I’ve searched for a WooCommerce hook about registration. I discovered the existence of a hook very similiar to the one used by WordPress: woocommerce_registration_errors. Obviously it works in the same way. Then I simply replaced the WordPress … Read more
This all depends on how users are being registered on your site. TLDR The code below allows you to create custom users from admin area specifying custom usernames, or use GENERATE_CUSTOM_SEQ_USERNAME to generate sequential numbered one. If using registration form other than wp-login.php just set user_login to GENERATE_CUSTOM_SEQ_USERNAME and hide the field using CSS. If … Read more
Spaces are not allowed in URLs, so WordPress uses the user_nicename for those links. The user nice_name is “A string that contains a URL-friendly name for the user. The default is the user’s username.”. That is a transformed user name such that it is all lowercase with spaces replaced by dashes. I did not look … Read more
I just fund the tricky solution, it was very simple and I did think about it. I just went to WooCommerce -> Settings -> Accounts and I untick the checkbox for “Automatically generate username from customer email”. I got the solution from this topic but here the problem was the contrary: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32781569/remove-username-field-registration-form-woocommerce
First: The $wpdb object has the names of tables, with prefixes, pre-defined for you. $wpdb->users == ‘wp_users’ $wpdb->posts == ‘wp_posts’ etc. Second: $wpdb-prepare() is essentially a WordPress aware printf, if you pass it more than one argument, you need to have some string/digit replacements %s %d $sql = “UPDATE {$wpdb->users} SET user_login = %s WHERE … Read more
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 in registered user’s names. If you’re going to add first and last names to your commenting form… or treat first + last name as … Read more