[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #9568: Allow users to log in using their email address

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#9568: Allow users to log in using their email address
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 Reporter:  Denis-de-Bernardy  |       Owner:  Denis-de-Bernardy
     Type:  feature request    |      Status:  new              
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  2.8              
Component:  Users              |     Version:  2.8              
 Severity:  normal             |    Keywords:                   
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 I've been looking into a few tickets and adding patches to things that
 were potentially problematic when implementing a membership plugin (#1626,
 #4170, #9563, #9564). The general idea being twofold: to avoid duplicate
 users at all costs -- because it's a bloody mess to merge users in a
 billing system.

 I'm about to embark on a mid-sized patch that renders the WP username
 field optional. This is a natural next step from #9563 and #9564.

 Users could then be allowed to specify an email only, when registering.
 And they could use their email to login -- in addition to their username
 if they specified one.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9568>
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