Is there a way you can change your username on wordpress?

10 years ago

Originally Posted by johnreynado

On the "edit my profile page" on my wordpress, it says that usernames cannot be changed. Is there anyway I can go around this? If so, how? If not, do I have to pay for a new hosting site and delete my previous one? What's the best way to go at this?

Interesting question. Would like to know that answer too!

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Kerryrus

10 years ago

Unfortunately not. Only your password

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agmccall 10 years ago

Simple, just add another user and use that login

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Pedro Lopes

10 years ago

Don't know of a way to change it, but as agmccall mentioned.. you don't have to have just one..
This may be by design.

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Myles Sinclair

10 years ago

Originally Posted by johnreynado

On the "edit my profile page" on my wordpress, it says that usernames cannot be changed. Is there anyway I can go around this? If so, how? If not, do I have to pay for a new hosting site and delete my previous one? What's the best way to go at this?

Yes you can, but not within the Wordpress control panel.

If you don't want to add a new user as already suggested, you can do the following -

1. Login to your cPanel and access phpMyadmin for MySQL databases.

2. Select Database for WP installation and browse WP users.

3. Click on "Edit" pencil and replace "admin" (Or whatever current name is) with new username.

That's it, job done!

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Lucian Lada

10 years ago

You can do it from the database, but a much simpler way is to add a new user, log-in with it and delete the old one.

You can do this even for admin-level users.

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vishwa

10 years ago

You can change your wordpress user name by login to your database. Then click "user" table and here your will able to change your username.

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smjconet 10 years ago

I did it. Add another user and set them with full admin rights. Then login as the new user name and delete the old username.
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