[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #9568: Allow users to log in using their email address

[WordPress Trac]

#9568: Allow users to log in using their email address
-------------------------------+--------------------------------------------
 Reporter:  Denis-de-Bernardy  |       Owner:  Denis-de-Bernardy
     Type:  feature request    |      Status:  accepted         
 Priority:  high               |   Milestone:  2.9              
Component:  Users              |     Version:  2.8              
 Severity:  major              |    Keywords:  has-patch early  
-------------------------------+--------------------------------------------

Comment(by aaroncampbell):

 I haven't gone through everything here yet (there's a lot of patches
 here), but I definitely have to say that logging in with an E-Mail is a
 big deal, and implemented on almost all the sites I do.  I'd love to see
 this taken a little further, because right now most of what I do is
 simply:
 {{{
 function allow_email_login($user, $pass) {
      global $wpdb;
      if (is_email($user)) {
           $user = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT user_login FROM $wpdb->users
 WHERE user_email = '$user'");
      }
      return;
 }
 add_action('wp_authenticate', 'allow_email_login', 0, 2);
 }}}

 The problem is that when we import users (for example from an existing
 fulfillment or billing system), we still have to create some sort of
 (rather pointless) username that isn't used anywhere.

-- 
Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9568#comment:35>
WordPress Trac <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/>
WordPress blogging software