First login with email address

  • It appears that the initial login attempt using an email from an external database account does not succeed. The login only works after using the username for the first time.

    For example, I have an account in the external database with the following details:

    I am unable to log in to WordPress using [email protected] as the username until I have successfully logged in once with johndoe.

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  • Plugin Author tbenyon

    (@tbenyon)

    Hey there,

    This was a personal project that I haven’t worked on for some years but I’ve had a quick look for you.

    Unfortunately it appears you are correct and this is a limitation of the software. Although you could choose which field is used as the “username” on the external database it doesn’t allow for two options (e.g. e-mail OR username).

    This project is fully open source so if you are a developer or would like to pay for a developer to add this feature the main logic would need adding here plugin-files/login/db.php

    The repository can be found here.

    If you have any other questions I’ll do my best to answer them.

    Warm regards,

    Tom ??

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