Check for alphanumeric For more details, look at the regex Q on SO. $name=”input string 123″; // Doesn”t allow: // Pre-/Appending white space // Not more than one space in between // Non-alphanumeric characters (lower case) if( ! preg_match( “/^[a-z0-9]+([\\s]{1}[a-z0-9]|[a-z0-9])+$/i”, $name ) ) { // Output Error Message } // Or: Does only allow // … Read more
One can find the username of post author in multiple ways. For example, yoursite.com/?author=1 may reveal the username. Even though, it is easy to find the username, it is still not recommended to keep the username for posts. However, it is okay to do so.
Disable author admin just use name.
Many themes echo the post author names associated with posts. Those are in some cases the same as the username. The author archive links, depending on the permalink can reveal the username as well– /author/admin Getting the username is fairly trivial. I am sure there are other ways to manage it.
How to assign a UserName value at creation
There’s no such thing as a literal @ in that part of a URL, you have to URL encode it. Sometimes browsers will decode it for you so it looks ok but it’s just being helpful. The only time you can use it without encoding is when specifying the username and password in a URL … Read more
There are a few easy steps to take: Go to your host management panel (GoDaddy docs here) and open phpMyAdmin. Navigate to your WordPress installation database Navigate to the wp_users table and you will see all of your users and email information Go to your WP installation login screen and reset your password there with … Read more
If you have access to the database via your hosting phpMyAdmin, you can edit the wp_users table in the database. Find the record for the admin user in the wp_users table. Change the name, email to the new values. Enter the password you want to use, then use the MD5 in the dropdown for that … Read more
You can try WordPress Special Characters in Usernames plugin. This plugin enables usernames containing special characters (russian, cyrillic, arabic) on your WordPress blog.
Without the email it will be hard, WordPress likely will not be willing to release that info. You will have a few options: Try any email you would have used in the forgot password function. Search all your emails for the emails you got initially. WordPress sends update emails periodically so whichever one has gotten … Read more