Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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WordPress Login With Email

WordPress default login form functionality is to log users using thier username, well you can change that to allow email address as well which seems to be more and more common on membership sites:

http://en.bainternet.info/2013/wordpress-allow-login-with-email

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A gentle note:
the function getuserbyemail() is depreciated and is replaced by getuser_by('email') according the codex.

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