Changing username trouble

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  joejames93 · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 12:01 pm

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  I want to change my username to match my blog title, WriteWriter, but don’t want to lose my blog when I change my username. Will this happen? Or if I change my username will be blog just work under that username?
  Sorry this is not very clear I’m not sure of the whole thing myself!
  Thank you for your help.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 5:46 pm

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  Blog names are the same as usernames for the most part. Usernames can be turned into blog names, but blog names cannot be turned into usernames.

  You can change your username by following these instructions > http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/ Please read those instructions very carefully.

  If I were you I would simply change my display name > Change Display Name (Nickname) http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/#change-display-name-nickname

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  isadz · Member · Jan 2, 2012 at 6:41 pm

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  Do you mean “if the username iphonist is not available, I should change my nickname to iphonist and this will appear as iphonist instead of iphonist1 in these forums?”
  Or are you just talking about author name which I already have iphonist.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jan 2, 2012 at 6:49 pm

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  Your actual username, iphoist1, will appear in these forums.
  For example, my nickname is Tess when I comment on blogs but here it is 1tess.

  You have 2 accounts, is that correct?
  The one linked to your username here and this:
  itspak1 http://itspak.wordpress.com
  If you are logged in to the other account, then your username here in these forums will appear as itspak1.