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Why the prohibition on changing usernames

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	Why the prohibition on changing usernames by Simon Wheatley-3 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message In the user profile screen the username field is disabled... why is that? Everywhere I can think of in the DB uses the User ID not the username. Will the world explode on me if I allow the admin to change user's usernames? S --- Sweet Interaction Ltd is Registered in England/Wales, no. 6610741 Registered office: 7 Malton Av, Manchester, M21 8AT _______________________________________________ wp-hackers mailing list wp-hackers@... http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
	Re: Why the prohibition on changing usernames by Beau Lebens :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message > In the user profile screen the username field is disabled... why is > that? Everywhere I can think of in the DB uses the User ID not the > username. Will the world explode on me if I allow the admin to change > user's usernames? Most likely to prevent breaking permalinks e.g. http://website.com/author/yourname/ _______________________________________________ wp-hackers mailing list wp-hackers@... http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
	Re: Why the prohibition on changing usernames by Mike Schinkel-5 :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Sounds like by implementing redirects ala posts with changed slugs this concern could be resolved? -Mike Schinkel WordPress Custom Plugins http://mikeschinkel.com/custom-wordpress-plugins/ On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Beau Lebens wrote: >> In the user profile screen the username field is disabled... why is >> that? Everywhere I can think of in the DB uses the User ID not the >> username. Will the world explode on me if I allow the admin to change >> user's usernames? > > Most likely to prevent breaking permalinks > > e.g. http://website.com/author/yourname/ > _______________________________________________ > wp-hackers mailing list > wp-hackers@... > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers _______________________________________________ wp-hackers mailing list wp-hackers@... http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
	Re: Why the prohibition on changing usernames by Jeremy Clarke :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Beau Lebens<beau@...> wrote: >> In the user profile screen the username field is disabled... why is >> that? > > Most likely to prevent breaking permalinks No more risky than changing category urls. Both should probably be changeable but with a warning about urls breaking first. -- Jeremy Clarke \| http://jeremyclarke.org Code and Design \| globalvoicesonline.org _______________________________________________ wp-hackers mailing list wp-hackers@... http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers