Why am I getting users with @example.com email address into my Wordpress?

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• Claude_SchlesserAdministratorOneAll Team

  December 2016 edited December 2016

  Hi Gus,
  
  unfortunately not all social networks provide the user's email address, and on some social networks the users can decide not to share it during the login. So there is no guarantee that the user's email address is always available.
  
  In the Social Login settings in your WordPress admin area you can see this setting:
  If the user's social network profile has no email address, should we ask the user to enter it manually?
  
  Select the following option to have the plugin ask the user for his email address in case it's not provided from the social network:
  Yes, require the user to enter his email address manually and display this message:
  
  If you select the other option
  No, simplify the registration by automatically creating a placeholder email
  Then the plugin will create the example.com placeholder email addresses.
• FoxyUtils_SupportMember

  December 2016

  I have that setting already enabled, see:
  
  
  Still get a lot of example.com users as you can see below. Some have both @example.com username and email address, some have @example.com username and a real email address:
  
  
  
  
• Claude_SchlesserAdministratorOneAll Team

  December 2016 edited December 2016

  Hello,
  
  is the email address being used as username intentional?
  
  Regards,
• FoxyUtils_SupportMember

  December 2016

  Yes. For our system we use email address as the user name. Does that matter?
• Claude_SchlesserAdministratorOneAll Team

  December 2016

  I think the first thing that we should have a look at are the users that have a correct email address, but nevertheless still the example.com username.
  
  Are you using a filter/hook to setup the user's email as username?
  Could you post that filter/hook here?
• FoxyUtils_SupportMember

  December 2016 edited December 2016

  Here are all my filters/hooks for the plugin
  
  // This function will be called after Social Login has added a new user add_action('oa_social_login_action_after_user_insert', function($user_data, $identity) { $url = home_url('/#welcome'); wp_set_current_user( $user_data->ID, $user_data->user_login ); wp_set_auth_cookie( $user_data->ID ); // At this point the user has successfully activated, send email. $user = new WP_User($user_data->ID); $name = trim($user->first_name . " " . $user->last_name); wrap_auth_user_activated($user->ID, $user->user_email, $name); wp_redirect($url); exit(); }, 10, 2);

// Use the email address as user login also. add_filter('oa_social_login_filter_new_user_fields', function($user_fields) { if (!empty ($user_fields['user_email'])) { if (!username_exists($user_fields['user_email'])) { $user_fields['user_login'] = $user_fields['user_email']; } } return $user_fields; });
• Claude_SchlesserAdministratorOneAll Team

  December 2016 edited December 2016

  Hello,
  
  the plugin has a hook oa_social_login_action_on_user_enter_email that is triggered when the user manually updates his email address (@example.com => real email address) after having connected with a social network that does not provide an email address.
  
  You should add a function like this:
  
  add_action('oa_social_login_action_on_user_enter_email', function($user_id, $user_data, $old_user_email) { // Change username to new email address wp_update_user (array ('ID' => $user_data->ID, 'user_login' => $user_data->user_email)); // Send activation email $user = new WP_User($user_data->ID); $name = trim($user->first_name . " " . $user->last_name); wrap_auth_user_activated($user->ID, $user->user_email, $name); }, 10, 2)
  
  This basically changes the user's login to his email address once he has entered his real email address and then sends the activation email. This code is untested, please test it after having added it.
• FoxyUtils_SupportMember

  December 2016

  That will help make sure that I get the email as the username.
  Still I am not sure if that solves the case where I am getting where the user_email and username is the @example.com address. In most cases I have the correct user_email but an @example.com username, which is fine. The main problem is when the user_email is wrong, i.e. something not entered by the user.
  
  Is there any case where the user can bypass entering their email?
  
• Claude_SchlesserAdministratorOneAll Team

  January 2017

  Hello,
  
  Is there any case where the user can bypass entering their email?
  
  It works like that:
  
  1. The user logs in and a new account is created 2. The plugin checks if it could retrieve the users email address 3. If not the user is prompted to enter his email address 4. If the user cancels this prompt, then his account is removed.
  
  So the users for which you have an @example.com email addresses are users which are still on step 3.
  Theses user might come back later and then they will be prompted once again to enter their email address.
  
  It's also possible that the user will not come back. I think it's safe to remove the accounts if they are more than a week old.
• FoxyUtils_SupportMember

  January 2017

  Thank you, I understand. The weird thing is that some users from @example.com email address are actively doing things on my site that only properly registered and logged in users should be capable of doing.