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WordPress Special Characters in Usernames

Description

This plugin enables usernames containing special characters (russian, cyrillic, arabic …) on your WordPress blog.

Per default WordPress does not allow to use special characters in usernames. Non-latin characters are silently filtered out and your users cannot create accounts containing cyrillic (russian) or arabic letters. This plugin is the solution to this problem.

The plugin works for users that are added by the administrator, for users that register with their username/password and for users that register using our Social Login plugin for WordPress.

Please Note
Special characters are encoded in the database and take a bit more space than regular characters.

If users having special characters in their usernames still cannot register after having installed the plugin then you probably have to increase the length of the column user_nicename in the table wp_users in your database.

Example:

ALTER TABLE `wp_users` CHANGE `user_nicename` `user_nicename` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '';

Available Charsets
You can enable/disable each charset individually in the Settings \ WSCU Settings page in your WordPress admin area.

  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Bengali
  • Bopomofo
  • Braille
  • Buhid
  • Canadian Aboriginal
  • Cherokee
  • Cyrillic
  • Devanagari
  • Ethiopic
  • Georgian
  • Greek
  • Gujarati
  • Gurmukhi
  • Han
  • Hangul
  • Hanunoo
  • Hebrew
  • Hiragana
  • Kannada
  • Katakana
  • Khmer
  • Lao
  • Latin
  • Limbu
  • Malayalam
  • Mongolian
  • Myanmar
  • Ogham
  • Oriya
  • Runic
  • Sinhala
  • Syriac
  • Tagalog
  • Tagbanwa
  • TaiLe
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Thaana
  • Thai
  • Tibetan
  • Yi

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory of your WordPress site,
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress,

FAQ

Where can I report bugs, leave my feedback and get support?

Our team answers your questions at:
http://www.oneall.com/company/contact-us/

Reviews

December 2, 2020
Great plugin only thing I’m missing is settings for allow accents.
June 8, 2020
When i registering new accaunt with only georgian letters in this case, the authorization does not pass, But when I register with Georgian + 1 Latin symbol or number, then plugin works correctly. Please help me to fix this problem <3
November 18, 2019
Great plugin, please add support for Georgian letters. i.e. “ჩვენი გორი” Thank you!
November 11, 2016
It’s really cool plugin. It will be useful for multilingual sites. Moreover, it works great with google and facebook verification.
October 20, 2016
Had to edit my wp DB to increase length of user_nicename. Totally worth it.
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Contributors & Developers

“WordPress Special Characters in Usernames” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

2.0

  • Added admin settings
  • Added 30+ charsets
  • Tested with WordPress 5.3

1.2

  • Tested with WordPress 3.6

1.1

  • Stable release

1.0

  • Initial release