How to change your wp username

akinpeludavid · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 9:50 pm
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Howdy, Chumz.
As we all know that you that you can’t change your wordpress username, but today I’m gonna share what I got while practicing via wampserver few days ago, as at now there’s no tutorial about this on the internet.

Follow my leads:-

Step 1
Login to your Hosting account > Click on PhpMyAdmin.

Step 2
Click on the database you’re using to run wordpress ex- “u123456789_user”, You’ll see 11 tables scroll down you’ll see a table named “wp_users” (It the last table on the list).

Step 3
Click On “wp_user”, When the page loads finish you’ll be presented with the list of all the users in your site, Navigate to
the user which you want to change his/her username click on edit.

Step 4
After clicking on edit you’ll see the following; ID user_login user_pass user_nicename user_email user_url user_registered date user_activation_key user_status & display_name. Change the name in “user_login” under value column to the new name you prefer when you’re done click on go to save it.

Step 5
Visit your site via sitename/wp-login.php then enter the new name you changed to in The username box and input the password you used for that particular account in the password field.

With the steps above you should successful change your user login name, It works on both local host and an online host :-D.

Note – Do not tamper with anything in the user_pass field, because if a figure, alphabet or symbol is deleted it will affect your initial password I think wordpress made it a md5 password .

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timethief · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 9:54 pm
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As we all know that you that you can’t change your wordpress username

That’s not true. You can change both your WordPress.com account username (the name you use to login) and your display name (the name that is seen on your posts and comments) by following this guide.

Change Your Username
akinpeludavid · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 10:00 pm
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“Once you change your username you will not be able to change it
back and the old name will not be available for you or anyone to use.
If you just want to show your name differently please only change
your Display Name” – http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/

Bro by using the method up above you can change your username as many times possible.
timethief · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 10:03 pm
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This thread is tagged for Staff attention and closure.
akinpeludavid · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 10:06 pm
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why at timethief? is anything wrong with me sharing what i discovered?
timethief · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 10:08 pm
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Staff will make the call. Volunteers don’t do that.
akinpeludavid · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 10:11 pm
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like seriously??? its sounds like you’re trying to discourage me.
timethief · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 10:20 pm
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Who me? Who am I to discourage you or anyone else with an empty blog from creating convoluted workarounds and posting here to defeat what Staff have in place to prevent what you are doing?
akinpeludavid · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 10:35 pm
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Its not what you think bro,I’m just 16 an aspirant , new to wp so i try stuffs day in day out. ” Who me? Who am I to discourage you or anyone else with an empty blog” – i created a wp acc yesterday evening just to share what i discovered because i was very excited so the case of i creating an empty blog should be nullified bro.

i do practise with wampserver ,i wanna bcome a pro before i think of making my blog public.
akinpeludavid · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 10:38 pm
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im a technophiles i really love to learn new stuff not just because i wanna study comp. sci in higher institution , i do it just to widen my knowledge.
akinpeludavid · Member · Oct 22, 2014 at 10:50 pm
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@moderator/admin If what i did i really wrong please comment…
timethief · Member · Oct 23, 2014 at 8:26 pm
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WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate and have different logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate documentation and support forums. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

The support documentation for WordPress.ORG software is here
https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
Search results for “change username” https://wordpress.org/search/change+username

If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.
akinpeludavid · Member · Nov 7, 2014 at 8:41 pm
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tnx, pls how do i place the widget of a theme to d left hand side on a mobile device , i’ve tried but its not working and it worked when i tried it via wampserver.
timethief · Member · Nov 7, 2014 at 8:44 pm
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@akinpeludavid

via wampserver

We do not provide support for local installs of WordPress.ORG software here at WordPress.COM.

WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate and have different logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate documentation and support forums. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

The support documentation for WordPress.ORG software is here
https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
Search results for “change username” https://wordpress.org/search/change+username

If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.

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