A browser seems to store the name as email, then when someone tries to login, the browser automtically uses the name to try and login. Of course people can change it, but a lot dont and i have had a lot of failed logins.
I think chrome uses the name of the field which is “log” which is the same as the default wp login box, so maybe its auto filling from that, in any case both email or user name can be used in our form.
Username and email work, but name does not and that is what google and firefox seem to save to login
So with the above example it is defaulting to my name ‘david walker’ and trying to login with this?
I seem to have a long list of failed logins and i can see that they are trying to use their name. Wondered why this was happening for a few weeks but now i can see why
Google asks me if i want to save this user, (this is even worse in firefox as it automatically saves), it asks me like this
Note it save the name and not the email.
I click save and then logout, and login, and it displays this
This is not going to work as David Walker 778 is what i entered for name, and not email / username. It brings back an error login. Because the David Walker 778 is in front of the normal textfield description ’email’ then people are not correcting the browser mistake to enter their email instead of name? So it leads to people not logging in.
Is their a way to remove the name field, or change it to username on the frontpage
Thank you for the detailed explanation, i managed to replicate this issue and as a result in the next version the user/email fields will be swapped position to comply.
Thanks,
Stiofan
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