This weekend I set up WP Discourse to bring in anyone that makes a WooCommerce purchase in as a Discourse user. I got everything to work and was super proud of myself and even set up Zapier to add them automatically to a group. But this morning someone named François made a purchase and they did not…

[image] Chris_Smith: I am using WooCommerce and it’s in the WooCommerce checkout page that they enter their user info to create a login. It sounds Woocommerce strip unallowed characters from the username. Is the user with the francois.xxx username able to login to Discourse? Logging into Disc…

[image] Chris_Smith: But this morning someone named François made a purchase and they did not get added as a Discourse user. Are you making the request to add the user to Discourse from WordPress or from Zapier? For SSO, is it configured so that users log into Discourse through WordPress, or…

[image] simon: Are you making the request to add the user to Discourse from WordPress or from Zapier? With the Wp- Discourse SSO . Zapier was just to add them to the group. [image] simon: For SSO, is it configured so that users log into Discourse through WordPress, or are users logging int…

With SSO disabled, I am able to create a Discourse account with François as a username. I am not able to create a WordPress account with that username. The error message I get on WordPress is “This username is invalid because it uses illegal characters. Please enter a valid username.” Are you using…

I’m not using any special plugins to allow additional characters, but it did create a username for this person, just without using the special character. francois.xxx. Something changed the ç to c. I am using WooCommerce and it’s in the WooCommerce checkout page that they enter their user info to c…

I don’t know if they can. I don’t really want to put a new customer through that testing, but I’ll try it with my chrisç username and see what I can do. I do know that they are not being added to my user list in Discourse when they have that character in them. Thank you for all of your help!

[image] Chris_Smith: I’ll try it with my chrisç username and see what I can do You can try creating an account with a throw-away gmail address for testing this. If you enable the “Create or Sync Discourse Users on Login” setting on the WP Discourse SSO Provider tab, Discourse accounts should…

[image] simon: You can try creating an account with a throw-away gmail address for testing this. That’s exactly what I did and it does work. [image] simon: If you are adding users to Discourse groups via Zapier, the request will fail if the user doesn’t exist on Discourse yet. That’s …

SSO, WP Discourse and special characters in username

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simon March 9, 2020, 5:13pm 2

Are you making the request to add the user to Discourse from WordPress or from Zapier?

For SSO, is it configured so that users log into Discourse through WordPress, or are users logging into WordPress through Discourse?

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SSO, WP Discourse and special characters in username

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