Networks for WordPress, having multisites and multidomains -HELP

Honestly, since there are multiple networks, I was keeping out of it. Mine aren’t that complex.

Its not that complex as it seems to be, maybe i am wrong & notice later when i will have to manage everything.
OMG i had plans for even bigger one, using several domains.
but I will try to keep everything organized, that would make things easy.
Hey Ipstenu, can you say something for 4th last comment. My and David’s conversation after I say – “hi david, I have found the exact-exact problem with the registration process………..”
thanks, Roxor

This one?

Where dean and dean1 don’t work, but dean2 and dean1 do?

Testing that without any network plugins installed, just a plain old Multisite I have installed locally… dean and dean1 work just fine for me.

Hi Ipstenu, yes that is the one.
if you are testing it without any network plugin that means they must be on same domains right ? i am just assuming
the point is getting same name blogs on different domains(networks)
ex- Ipstenu.domain1.com, Ipstenu.domain2.com
both in same WP install and both exist simultaneously.

So the problem here I am facing is
If i want to make roxor.pidia.eu and roxor.pidia.us
then it would be possible if i use
usernames- roxor1 and roxor2 for these blogs respectively.
then it would NOT be possible if i use
usernames- roxor and roxor1 for these blogs respectively.
here is the proof for it
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76068561@N08/7020860041/in/set-72157629315408980/lightbox/
view all the seven images and notice the usernames and the sitenames that I have used.

these two blogs roxor.pidia.eu, roxor.pidia.us doesnot exist now since I did a new install so you should be able to get the both blogs if you use usernames roxor1 and roxor2 at present.
thanks for responding Ipstenu ??

Yeah but you said when you tried to make USERS of dean and dean1 didn’t work…

My eyes suck, I can’t read your images.

while making users dean and dean1 -it goes fine
but when these usernames try to get blogs of same name on different domains(networks)
ex- dean.domain1.com and dean.domain2.com
then it gives errors – “sorry this site is already reserved”
even thou no such second site exists in database or network panel

sorry for the inconvenience, I know my image sucks ….lol
i knew it would be unreadable so I highlighted the important points such as usernames and site-urls in red.
So even if you just read the red, green text then it should be pretty much understandable.

Ahhh. Okay. (Colorblindness not withstanding, I really can’t make out the text.)

Is the first site ‘confirmed’ and registered? Not just stuck in holding?

yes the first site was confirmed and registered, i could even make posts.
but since I have a new install now you cant find roxor.pidia.us anymore.
but you can try it yourself.

Hi David and Ipstenu ??
I have some good news,
A– I tried using email ids as usernames and this solves the problem.
I used this plugin to achieve that – https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/network-username-restrictions-override/
issues that I am concerned about here is
1- the plugin is not updated, it is compatible upto WP-3.2.1 but still works, do you think this might create a problem later ?
2- I am also using buddypress, So is this good idea to have people’s username as their email.
It would sound funny if you get an update- [email protected] commented on your photograph.

B– I have tried all possible combinations of usernames
name1, 1name, name2, 2name, na1me, na2me, n1ame, nam2e etc etc …
and Now I can say with confidence that problem arises ONLY if I don’t use numbers in usernames. ex- name and name1
So it would be better if I force registrants to use usernames as a combination of letters and numbers. this should solve the problem.
for this I found a plugin which is very near to it. Same plugin as above.
it gives the option to set usernames as e-mails and all-numeric.
here is the screenshot – https://s.www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/network-username-restrictions-override/screenshot-1.png?r=525950
There is only one short php file for this plugin if we can modify that OR some lines of code that can be added in WP core files that would force registrants to use usernames as a combination of letters and numbers.
I am zero at php, but still I feel like few lines of code is all I need to make this work.
cheers, roxor

1) Nah, plugins are generally okay, even if they don’t say ‘works on X version of WP’

2) Good is subjective, if it works for you, it’s fine.

>> I might run into problems with @mentions in buddypress if I use e-mail id’s as usernames. Many people often have long weird mail id’s.
>> Also I am getting false errors while registration saying “username must be 4 chars” with that outdated plugin.

It would be great if I could just force registrants to use usernames as a combination of letters and numbers.
I looked into wp-signup.php and found this $user_name

` // User name
echo ‘<label for=”user_name”>’ . __(‘Username:’) . ‘</label>’;
if ( $errmsg = $errors->get_error_message(‘user_name’) ) {
echo ‘<p class=”error”>’.$errmsg.'</p>’;
}
echo ‘<input name=”user_name” type=”text” id=”user_name” value=”‘. esc_attr($user_name) .'” maxlength=”60″ /><br />’;
_e( ‘(Must be at least 4 characters, letters and numbers only.)’ );
?>`
*and other few lines that contained $user_name*

I also did a search for variable $user_name in WP files here
https://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/nav.html?index.html
this would tell me where a particular variable was used.
It returned a long list where this variable was defined and referenced in whole WP. Now I am planning to go thru all of them.

I have no idea how to go for it, but if something can be added or altered here should give the result. I want you to please help me out here.
thanks, Roxor

Hi Ipstenu, I looked into the code of /wp-includes/ms-functions.php and found these line which would affect the input of usernames. especially the lines –
440-443
461-462
464-465
467-471

/wp-includes/ms-functions.php‘
432 function wpmu_validate_user_signup($user_name, $user_email) {
433 global $wpdb;
434
435 $errors = new WP_Error();
436
437 $orig_username = $user_name;
438 $user_name = preg_replace( ‘/\s+/’, ”, sanitize_user( $user_name, true ) );
439
440 if ( $user_name != $orig_username || preg_match( ‘/[^a-z0-9]/’, $user_name ) ) {
441 $errors->add( ‘user_name’, __( ‘Only lowercase letters (a-z) and numbers are allowed.’ ) );
442 $user_name = $orig_username;
443 }
444
445 $user_email = sanitize_email( $user_email );
446
447 if ( empty( $user_name ) )
448 $errors->add(‘user_name’, __(‘Please enter a username’));
449
450 $illegal_names = get_site_option( ‘illegal_names’ );
451 if ( is_array( $illegal_names ) == false ) {
452 $illegal_names = array( ‘www’, ‘web’, ‘root’, ‘admin’, ‘main’, ‘invite’, ‘administrator’ );
453 add_site_option( ‘illegal_names’, $illegal_names );
454 }
455 if ( in_array( $user_name, $illegal_names ) == true )
456 $errors->add(‘user_name’, __(‘That username is not allowed’));
457
458 if ( is_email_address_unsafe( $user_email ) )
459 $errors->add(‘user_email’, __(‘You cannot use that email address to signup. We are having problems with them blocking some of our email. Please use another email provider.’));
460
461 if ( strlen( $user_name ) < 4 )
462 $errors->add(‘user_name’, __(‘Username must be at least 4 characters’));
463
464 if ( strpos( ‘ ‘ . $user_name, ‘_’ ) != false )
465 $errors->add( ‘user_name’, __( ‘Sorry, usernames may not contain the character “_”!’ ) );
466
467 // all numeric?
468 $match = array();
469 preg_match( ‘/[0-9]*/’, $user_name, $match );
470 if ( $match[0] == $user_name )
471 $errors->add(‘user_name’, __(‘Sorry, usernames must have letters too!’));
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I need to write php lines that would force registrants to use usernames as a combination of albhabets(a-z) and numbers(0-9)
I am trying my best But I can’t write what I am thinking in correct php, please help me here.
thanks, Roxor

I need to write php lines that would force registrants to use usernames as a combination of albhabets(a-z) and numbers(0-9)

There are some plugins that can do that, IIRC, but for the life of me all I can find is https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/restrict-usernames/

Hi Ipstenu
thank you, The plugin did exactly what I wanted ??
I would like to keep this thread open for couple of days, I am working on centralized signup, I might need help from you and David again.
roxor