How can I also allow capital letters?

Hi @terry789,
I am sorry for the delayed reply.

1. what kind of setup do you have.

I will need the plugin to show correct message as it currently shows the restrictions imposed by multisite and not the normal WordPres.

Please do know that it won’t prevent user’s from using any username. That is the job of WordPress. If the users are unable to register, you may want to look at the allow capital letters or similar plugin for username.

Regards
Brajesh

Hello @sbrajesh,

I do not have a multisite but a basic wordpress installation.
WordPress 4.9.1 – Buddypress 2.9.2

I can also use uppercase letters without your plugin activated.

There is, however, a check on the name. Myname – works – myname also works – but these can not be used side by side. Username has already been used. Ok fine.

However, your plugin tells me that only lowercase letters may be used.

I have modified the following in your source file to test:

Changed this
preg_match( "/[a-z0-9]+/", $user_name, $maybe );
To this
preg_match( "/[A-Za-z0-9]+/", $user_name, $maybe );

Uppercase letters can now also be used and Myname – works – myname also works – and correct I get, Username has already been used.

But for user convenience both forms can be used.

Regards,
Terry

Update:

With the above adjustment – also plugin – BuddyPress Username Changer – works correct.

Gday

What file and what line was this found in. ?

The Author should have made it easy like this in the first place

hi,
This is the file and line
https://github.com/sbrajesh/bpdev-username-availability-checker/blob/master/username-availability-checker.php#L232

Hope that helps.

I will also look into it a bit more and see if WordPress normal and multisite both now allow capital letters now.

Will update the plugin accordingly.

Thank you
Brajesh

That changed code provided above doesnt allow spaces, how do we fix that code ?

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• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by jasonb4u2.

Please try this for now. I will release an update with almost similar code.

Please change this

if ( ! validate_username( $user_name ) || in_array( $user_name, ( array ) $illegal_names ) || ( isset( $maybe[0] ) && $user_name != $maybe[0] ) ) {
			$error = __( 'Only lowercase letters and numbers allowed', 'bpdev-username-availability-checker' );
		}

to

if ( ! validate_username( $user_name ) || in_array( $user_name, ( array ) $illegal_names )  ) {
			$error = __( 'Only lowercase letters and numbers allowed', 'bpdev-username-availability-checker' );
		}

In the above case, we are not doing any extra checking and letting WordPress do it for us.

This should allows all valid usernames to pass(which are allowed by WordPress).

Regards
Brajesh

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by Brajesh Singh. Reason: removed the extra )

ahhhhhh, that code above broke my site, very dangerous

Ahh,
I am very sorry. Are you able to use ftp? If yes, please change the code to this.

if ( ! validate_username( $user_name ) || in_array( $user_name, ( array ) $illegal_names ) )  {
	$error = __( 'Only lowercase letters and numbers allowed', 'bpdev-username-availability-checker' );
}

Alos, please do not copy from the email and the code will ne entity encoded.

My above code had an extra ‘)’. I am sorry I missed that and it broke your site.

Yep, ya got it, I reckon you should upload all that now, save others having misshaps and wondering this and wondering that

Onya, nice one

Thank you. I am glad your site is back now.

Yes, I will add it to the plugin and release by tomorrow(I am about to leave, was waiting to make sure your site got back).

Regards
Brajesh

Cheers buddy, thanks for the awesomeness