2 e-mail-boxes at Sign-Up

[erich73]

at the Sign-up-page where a user registers, there should be 2 "e-mail boxes" in order to make sure that the user enters his e-mail-address correctly.

When a user makes a typo on entering his e-mail-address, he should be informed in order to correct his e-mail.

There are 2 Password-Boxes in BP, and there should be also 2 e-mail-boxes so that the user gets his e-mail-address entered correctly.

This is a standard web-feature nowadays.

[erich73]

related Forum-thread:

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/verify-email-before-register/

[erich73]

script:

​http://flweb.it/2010/05/add-confirm-email-field-in-buddypress-signup-page/

[francescolaffi]

the script in my blog is for adding in a site, approach for adding to the core is different, so don't consider that as a patch.
I don't feel the email confirm always needed and it's really easy to add (as a script or as plugin), so lets see what coredevs think and how many user really want this in the core

[r-a-y]

For simplicity's sake, I wouldn't add the second email address field to the core.

Case in point, look at Twitter's signup page:
​https://twitter.com/signup

@Erich - Francesco's code works well as a plugin, so I'd recommend just popping that code in bp-custom.php or your theme's functions.php.

[r-a-y]

This functionality is now added in Boris' BP Xtra Signup plugin:
​http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-xtra-signup/

I'd suggest using his plugin for this.

I'm in agreement with Francesco; this shouldn't be in core.

[boonebgorges]

Handled nicely by plugins.