Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#12823 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
Blog name is unnecessarily sanitized
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| Milestone: | 3.0 | Priority: | high |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | |
| Component: | Multisite | Keywords: | has-patch signup ux |
| Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
When validating a blog information on multisite signup the blog name is sanitized using sanitize_user(). After that there is a check if the blog name matches [a-z0-9]+ and if it doesn't match it is rejected.
In this case there is no need of sanitizing the blog name before the check. Also, sanitizing sometimes confuses users, because their blog name seems accepted, but in fact a modified version is used, not what they entered.
For example, enter bábá as blog name and after sanitizing it will become baba. Or enter something in cyrillic like баба. After sanitization it will become an empty string and the error message will be as if you didn't enter anything.
All these make for a confusing user experience.
(In [14005]) remove extraneous blog name sanitization, props nbachiyski, fixes #12823