NOTE: Password Hint Temporary Fix

  • ResolvedPlugin Author Danny Santoro

    (@danielsantoro)


    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hi everyone – please note that the current 1.1.0 version does not hide or modify the Password Hint message, which is currently:

    Hint: The password should be at least twelve characters long. To make it stronger, use upper and lower case letters, numbers, and symbols like ! ” ? $ % ^ & ).

    To get around this, you can add some CSS to your theme, child theme, or through a free plugin like Simple Custom CSS and use the code here:

    small.woocommerce-password-hint {
    display: none;
}

    Link to Code: https://gist.github.com/DanielSantoro/4696007f5c800f751cbfbd925218c59a

    This hides the Hint text. This is not a bug, and the plugin is still working – changing the Hint text is not something that is coded in with version 1.1.0.

    Features to modify this text will be added in version 1.2.0, which I’m currently working on but have my hands tied at the moment. Stay tuned for updates!

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  • My password should be 8 character strong including upper case, lower case, number and symbol.
    when i try these by your plugin it not working properly. if you can check example my password: Mummmy$2 is not giving password as a strong paswword.

    Plugin Author Danny Santoro

    (@danielsantoro)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hi dmishra,

    The plugin is working properly. “Mummmy$2” is not a particularly strong password in the scope of things – see how it rated in the test below:

    Test 1

    While the password might be difficult for a person to guess, it isn’t as secure if a computer was guessing. You can go here to see that test in action and find alternative strong passwords, typically level 3 or 4 is ideal: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.html

    So, if we changed it to Mummmy $2 by adding a space, it increases the difficulty by about eight times, and if we made it Mummmy $2 Ghost then its strength is increased over 4,000 times.

    Hope this helps clarify. ??

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