dwaastoo

Hi James,

Thank you for your extensive feedback and troubleshooting tips. I did as you asked and finally isolated the source.

As it turns out, I previously overlooked one of the plugins, “really simple ssl”. I don’t know why, but somehow I was under the impression it was part of the obligatory-Uncode-theme-plugins (foolish me) so it became a blind spot. Anyway, this plugin had a setting ‘stop user enumeration’.

I don’t know how I overlooked that, sorry for using all of your times for such a trivial problem.

Best regards,

Hi surviving404,

Thx for your work and respons. I never had this plugin installed.
Yet, I installed it, unchecked the option you mentioned, confirmed, deactivated and deleted.

However, sadly, it was to no avail.

I didn’t add any plugins around the time this behaviour started.

Hi 404-survivor

Theme: uncode

Plugins: akismet, solid backups, wp-rocket, word fence. (Yet, the behaviour persists with all plugins deactivated).

Do you suspect/ know this is not a setting within WordPress itself?

Kind regards

Thanks for your suggestion Steff. This article promotes a plugin “Restrict Usernames Emails Characters” which restricts usernames if registering. It does not mention where restriction on comment_author_names are located in WordPress itself, so I may bypass them.

Nevertheless, I tried if this plugin also worked on the comment-section and if it let me bypass the restriction on numbers/ digits in a comment_author_name I mentioned, but sadly it didn’t.

• This reply was modified 9 months ago by dwaastoo.

@abremen Thank you!
Clearing all caches (browser and WordPress/ WP rocket) did the trick for me. Everything is working as expected.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by dwaastoo.