How to change the Admin username

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  josephewatson · Member · Aug 24, 2015 at 2:03 am

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  I want to change my Admin username, not the ‘User’ username. I’m not talking about the entries in the Admin’s ‘Nickname’ or ‘Display name publicly as’. I have been to a lot of googling but no success. I already went to WordPress Help but still unsuccessful.

  Please help.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Aug 24, 2015 at 3:04 am

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  All relevant support docs are here http://support.wordpress.com
  search for https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=change+display+name
  results https://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/#change-display-name-nickname

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Aug 24, 2015 at 3:08 am

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  Oh NERTS! Cancel that. I does not apply to this site http://www.drillinghandbook.com/ because it is not hosted by WordPress.COM.

  drillinghandbook.com is hosted by NameCheap
  WHOIS
  IP Address: 68.65.121.205
  Name Servers:
  dns1.namecheaphosting.com
  dns2.namecheaphosting.com

  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG account, then click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, https://wordpress.org/support/register.php so you can post to the support forums there.
  Resetting your WordPress.ORG password http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
  WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

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  josephewatson · Member · Aug 24, 2015 at 7:04 am

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  I already have a wordpress.com username and password. I want to change my admin username for my website. I think I have to go to namecheap which is hosting my site.

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  andrewww73wp · Member · Aug 24, 2015 at 2:12 pm

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  Hallo, I am adding wordpress.com users to my website with different editing privileges. However, on the users’ page of my dashboard, WP says these users I added are not linked to any wordpress.com profile. What???!!!??? They HAVE a WordPress profile!!! How can I solve this??? Thanks.

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  giannipoli · Member · Aug 24, 2015 at 2:24 pm

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  Ho cambiato il mio sito con voi da giannipoli.net a giannipèoli.it- Adesso se vado sul web mi mi trova più ed addirittura mi collega ad un nmio sito d 1&1 (giannipoli.eu)=: Sono disperato che devo fare ??? (email visible only to moderators and staff)