I need help with changing my user or display name, but not sure which.

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  georgedryden · Member · May 8, 2014 at 2:50 pm

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  I have already looked at an answer about this, but it didn’t help when I came to actually execute it. I want to change my username. Because you can’t change it back once it’s done, I don’t want to get it wrong and I am also confused as to what the difference is between my display name and username. I don’t want to change my web address for the blog, but will be wanting to in the future…

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  gracejiyoung · Member · May 10, 2014 at 12:33 am

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  Hi there,

  So the display name is the name that is seen on your posts and comments. The username is just the name you use to login.

  You can change the name displayed on your posts and comments by changing the “display name” on your Personal Settings admin panel:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/#change-display-name-nickname

  You can watch a video showing how to change your display name here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/#change-display-name-nickname

  If you need to change your actual username, please follow these steps:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/#change-username

  If you do that and do not want to create a site with the new username, please select No as seen here:

  

  Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!