username with asterisk causes problems

[Uwe Trenkner]

We just had a new user who could not login. On closer inspection, the problem lay in his username which had an asterisk at the end, e.g. “username*”. Simple Membership happily accepts such a username. But WordPress filters out the asterisk and saves the new user as “username” (without asterisk). Thus, the user cannot login.

We were able to solve this easily with the user. But maybe this plugin could prevent this problems from happening again in the future if it accepted/rejected the same usernames as WordPress itself? Thanks.

[The Assurer]

What character set are you using? Are you using non-Latin characters in your WordPress installation?

[Uwe Trenkner]

Hi @wzp, we use UTF-8 everywhere, all SWPM-tables use the MySQL-collation utf8mb4_unicode_ci. Our installation language is de_DE (German), so we are using inter alia German characters like ä, ö, ü and ß.

[The Assurer]

I will consult with the developer.

[admin]

Thank you. We will update our plugin to not accept the * character for the username field.

[Uwe Trenkner]

Excellent. Many thanks!

[admin]

We have released an update to the plugin for this.

[Author]

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