wp-includes/rest-api/endpoints/class-wp-rest-users-controller.php:1318Check a username for the REST API.
$valuestring$requestWP_REST_Request$paramstringstring|WP_ErrorOne hook fires while WP_REST_Users_Controller::check_username() runs, in this order:
Filters the list of disallowed usernames.
public function check_username( $value, $request, $param ) { $username = (string) $value; if ( ! validate_username( $username ) ) { return new WP_Error( 'rest_user_invalid_username', __( 'This username is invalid because it uses illegal characters. Please enter a valid username.' ), array( 'status' => 400 ) ); } /** This filter is documented in wp-includes/user.php */ $illegal_logins = (array) apply_filters( 'illegal_user_logins', array() ); if ( in_array( strtolower( $username ), array_map( 'strtolower', $illegal_logins ), true ) ) { return new WP_Error( 'rest_user_invalid_username', __( 'Sorry, that username is not allowed.' ), array( 'status' => 400 ) ); } return $username; }Introduced in 4.7.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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