Username modification

  • Resolved Patrick Daly

    (@developdaly)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    I’ve been meaning to try to get this fixed for a couple of years now … just now getting around to it.

    My profile ( https://profiles.www.ads-software.com/developdaly ) lists my plugins and themes. You’ll see one of them called “Email”. Click on it and you’ll land on https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/email/. Now look at my username in the sidebar … it’s not linked back to my profile.

    This is because my username was incorrectly capitalized years and years ago when the account was created. Some sections of www.ads-software.com aren’t case-sensitive; others are.

    Is there any way I can get my username changed from “Developdaly” to “developdaly”, since everything on this site is pointing to the lowercase version anyway?

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Usernames can’t be changed, sorry.

    Thread Starter Patrick Daly

    (@developdaly)

    Don’t get me wrong … I understand the severity of changing a username; it likely requires one of the few with database access to manually change it … a task I would restrict from happening in 99.99% of cases.

    And I wouldn’t be asking if it were a request to wholly change my username, but this is a bug on the .org side. At least according to the plugin/theme attribution on profile pages, username case does not matter.

    There’s two solutions here: change .org’s code to be case insensitive in the places it isn’t already OR change my username. The latter is likely easier, so maybe there’s *some* way we can make this happen?

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    It’s not doable currently so you’ll have to wait for it to be developed.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    The latter is likely easier

    It’s not :/

    www.ads-software.com support forum IDs tie into: support forums, theme repo, plugin repo, trac, meta trac, make blogs, codex, and more.

    Hence it’s a mess like you don’t wanna know. And they’re ALL flippin’ case sensitive. So thats multiple DBs to change, and god help us if we miss one.

    Your fix?

    Edit this line: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/email/trunk/readme.txt#L2

    Make THAT “Developdaly”

    Done.

    Thread Starter Patrick Daly

    (@developdaly)

    Lo’ and behold … I mention this after years of it being a problem and one week later it’s fixed. But, I can’t find anything in Trac that points to what would have changed unless someone (without telling me) made the DB changes.

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