Users with a space in their username cannot log in via https://login.wordpress.org.

[netweb]

Users with a space in their username cannot log in via ​https://login.wordpress.org.

For a username such as: My Username

Workarounds tried includes replacing caps with lowercase or replace the space with a hyphen or an underscrore:

• my username
• My-Username
• My_Username
• my-username
• my_username

Logging in via the form on the page header at ​https://wordpress.org/support/ works fine though.

[ocean90]

Tested a few minutes ago an I could successfully log in with a username which contains a space. Was this a specific user?

It's now also possible to log in with a email address.

[netweb]

Indeed it was a specific user: ​https://profiles.wordpress.org/robin-w

I was given the password to login and test it myself and based on all the permutations/combinations list above none would work, the workaround was to create a new w.org user which is this user ​@robinwilson for a temporary solution.

The only successful login I was able to achieve was via the login form here ​https://wordpress.org/support/ with the username Robin W and his password.

This was all in order to get Robin on Slack and the log in tests were all performed whilst attempting to have the Slack signup page acknowledge that he was logged in at login ​https://chat.wordpress.org, even once logging in at ​https://wordpress.org/support/ subsequently navigating to ​https://chat.wordpress.org would show he was not logged in.

You can also see on his main profile page ​https://profiles.wordpress.org/robin-w that the his plugins he has authored are not listed, e.g ​https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bbp-style-pack, his commits are in his profile via the BuddyPress activity though.

What I see as the ideal scenario would be jumping into the database and performing some whitespace and hypen surgery on his username, I know this scenario is rarely offered because of the complexity involved, though I would ask that this be considered in this case if I could please. A couple of important considerations are for obvious reasons he does not want to lose commit access for his plugins and I do not want his ~4,000 awesome bbPress contributions to the forums or bbPress Codex affected ​https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/robin-w/

[ocean90]

• ​https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bbp-style-pack/trunk/readme.txt#L2 should be Robin W, not Robin Wilson.
• I actually don't see the need for changing his name.
• @robin-w: Feel free to contact me privately on Slack so we sort this out.

[ocean90]

The issue has been solved.

[netweb]

Thanks everyone, appreciated :)