id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
9568	Allow users to log in using their email address	Denis-de-Bernardy		"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."	feature request	assigned	high	Future Release	Users	2.8	major		has-patch needs-testing early	aaroncampbell asbjornu mikeschinkel@… 24-7@… beau@… norbert@… johnbillion@… gruvii bordoni.dev@… me@…