{"id":32341,"date":"2010-05-18T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=32341"},"modified":"2013-05-14T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:03:51","slug":"daily-tip-build-a-buddypress-username-availability-checker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-build-a-buddypress-username-availability-checker\/","title":{"rendered":"Build a BuddyPress Username Availability Checker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brajesh Singh has a really great tutorial about <a href=\"http:\/\/buddydev.com\/buddypress\/creating-a-buddypress-wordpress-username-availability-checker-for-your-site\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">how to add a Username Availability Checker to your BuddyPress site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very handy for learning about using Javascript event handlers with the BuddyPress registration process. He also offers a plugin for the username availability checker at the end of the tutorial.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not in the WordPress plugin repository, as far as I know, so I wanted to mention it here in our Daily Tip blog.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the username availability checker is all about the user experience and will help your user identify himself as having selected a username that will be used in site activities, including BuddyPress @mentions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brajesh Singh has a really great tutorial about how to add a Username Availability Checker to your BuddyPress site. It&#8217;s very handy for learning about using Javascript event handlers with the BuddyPress registration process. He also offers a plugin for the username availability checker at the end of the tutorial. It&#8217;s not in the WordPress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,557,235,4],"tags":[505],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-32341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-community","category-development","category-misc","category-plugins","tag-javascript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181931,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32341\/revisions\/181931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32341"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=32341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}