# Can usernames be numbers instead of Letters?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-usernames-be-numbers-instead-of-letters/213648>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 2, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-usernames-be-numbers-instead-of-letters/213648 "2022-01-02T18:40:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jay91](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jay91/32/135181_2.png) [@Jay91](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jay91)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2022, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-usernames-be-numbers-instead-of-letters/213648/1 "2022-01-02T18:40:50Z")

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Hello Team, Can username be numbers instead of letters?  
and when user register for the forum, only uses email and password, and the system should give a random number.

Why i need to do this?  
We use [Discourse connect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true) to let the users sign in with our wordpress account, in our wordpress website we use the email address as the username, so when the users are signing to our discourse for the first time the system is giving the the same username from our website which is their email address, at this point the email is exposed..

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