Restrict Usernames

3.7 (2018-06-19)

Highlights:

• This release fixes a few bugs (notably one preventing username restrictions from working well for BuddyPress and Multisite) and makes numerous behind-the-scenes changes.

Details:

• Fix: Correct inverted conditional logic that prevented restrictions from being enforced for BuddyPress and Multisite
• Fix: Make restricted usernames and partial usernames case insensitive for comparisons
• Fix: Make username testing input field responsive
• Change: Update plugin framework to 048
  • 048:
  • When resetting options, delete the option rather than setting it with default values
  • Prevent double “Settings reset” admin notice upon settings reset
  • 047:
  • Don’t save default setting values to database on install
  • Change “Cheatin’, huh?” error messages to “Something went wrong.”, consistent with WP core
  • Note compatibility through WP 4.9+
  • Drop compatibility with version of WP older than 4.7
  • 046:
  • Fix reset_options() to reference instance variable $options
  • Note compatibility through WP 4.7+
  • Update copyright date (2017)
  • 045:
  • Ensure reset_options() resets values saved in the database
  • 044:
  • Add reset_caches() to clear caches and memoized data. Use it in reset_options() and verify_config().
  • Add verify_options() with logic extracted from verify_config() for initializing default option attributes.
  • Add add_option() to add a new option to the plugin’s configuration.
  • Add filter ‘sanitized_option_names’ to allow modifying the list of whitelisted option names.
  • Change: Refactor get_option_names().
  • 043:
  • Disregard invalid lines supplied as part of hash option value.
• New: Add README.md
• Change: Store setting name in constant
• Change: Make untranslated strings translatable
• Change: Unit tests:
  • Add tests for bp_members_validate_user_signup()
  • Improve test initialization
  • Improve tests for settings handling
  • Default WP_TESTS_DIR to /tmp/wordpress-tests-lib rather than erroring out if not defined via environment variable
  • Enable more error output for unit tests
• Change: Minor code reformatting (spacing)
• Change: Add GitHub link to readme
• Change: Note compatibility through WP 4.9+
• Change: Drop compatibility with versions of WP older than 4.7
• Change: Rename readme.txt section from ‘Filters’ to ‘Hooks’
• Change: Modify formatting of hook name in readme to prevent being uppercased when shown in the Plugin Directory
• Change: Update copyright date (2018)
• Change: Update installation instruction to prefer built-in installer over .zip file

3.6 (2016-05-03)

Highlights:

• This release largely consists of minor behind-the-scenes changes.

Details:

• Change: Update plugin framework to 042:
  • Change class name to c2c_RestrictUsernames_Plugin_042 to be plugin-specific.
  • Set textdomain using a string instead of a variable.
  • Don’t load textdomain from file.
  • Change admin page header from ‘h2’ to ‘h1’ tag.
  • Add c2c_plugin_version().
  • Formatting improvements to inline docs.
• Change: Add support for language packs:
  • Set textdomain using a string instead of a variable.
  • Remove .pot file and /lang subdirectory.
• Change: Amend description for max_length setting to indicate WP already enforces a max length of 60, which the plugin cannot increase.
• New: Hook ‘illegal_user_logins’ filter to add in usernames explicitly prohibited by the plugin.
• New: Add special note and FAQ item to readme indicating the likely lack of compatibility with membership plugins that have custom registration handling.
• Change: Declare class as final.
• Change: Explicitly declare methods in unit tests as public or protected.
• Change: Minor code reformatting.
• Change: Minor improvements to inline docs and test docs.
• Change: Prevent web invocation of unit test bootstrap.php.
• New: Add LICENSE file.
• New: Create empty index.php to prevent files from being listed if web server has enabled directory listings.
• Change: Note compatibility through WP 4.5+.
• Change: Remove support for versions of WordPress older than 4.1.
• Change: Update copyright date (2016).

3.5.1 (2015-04-16)

• Bugfix: compatibility fix for versions of WP older than 4.1; $error->remove() was introduced in 4.1

3.5 (2015-02-20)

• Fix error message handling to override misleading default WP registration error message
• Update plugin framework to 039
• Add more unit tests
• Explicitly declare activation() and uninstall() static
• Reformat plugin header
• Change documentation links to wp.org to be https
• Minor documentation spacing changes throughout
• Note compatibility through WP 4.1+
• Update copyright date (2015)
• Add plugin icon
• Add Russian translation. props Kolya Korobochkin
• Regenerate .pot

3.4.1 (2014-01-15)

• Bugfix to prevent plugin from causing admin error/notice messages to appear twice

3.4 (2014-01-14)

• Fix to display settings page update messages and username test tool results
• Add setting to optionally enforce minimum length for usernames
• Add setting to optionally enforce maximum length for usernames
• Improve display of username test tool results:
  • Display as list
  • Color-code results as green or red
  • Make ‘valid’ and ‘invalid’ translatable
• Add is_buddypress() to determine if BuddyPress’s user validation checks are being used
• Move descriptive text from top of settings page into Help panel under new ‘About’ tab
• Add unit tests
• Update plugin framework to 037
• Better singleton implementation:
  • Add get_instance() static method for returning/creating singleton instance
  • Make static variable ‘instance’ private
  • Make constructor protected
  • Make class final
  • Additional related changes in plugin framework (protected constructor, erroring __clone() and __wakeup())
• Add checks to prevent execution of code if file is directly accessed
• Use explicit path for require_once()
• Discontinue use of PHP4-style constructor
• Discontinue use of explicit pass-by-reference for objects
• Minor documentation improvements
• Minor code reformatting (spacing, bracing)
• Note compatibility through WP 3.8+
• Drop compatibility with version of WP older than 3.6
• Update copyright date (2014)
• Regenerate .pot
• Change donate link
• Update screenshot
• Add banner