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Opened 13 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#23430 new enhancement
sanitize_user() disallows + in usernames causes problem for email as username
| Reported by: | jb510 | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Users | Version: | 3.5.1 |
| Severity: | minor | Keywords: | has-patch |
| Cc: | Focuses: |
Description
I want to use email addresses as usernames which seems to work fine, except sanitize_user() doesn't allow a + in the username and my email addresses have + in them.
Google/gmail allows one to use a + modifier on emails like so:
user+admin@…, user+editor@…, user+author@…, etc...
I often use this to get around WordPress's requirement for unique email addresses but it's also intended for and useful in filtering: user+blog1@…, user+blog2@…, etc...
Is there a reason we can't allow +'s in usernames or could it be moved to the strict case only?
See formatting.php:892