My Blog Admin?

• 

  rocker0for0life · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:20 am

  • Copy link
  • Add topic to favorites

  

  As pictured, the blog admin name here is “My Own Writing” however, is there a way to change this to my username? I have tried before, but something else would change in the process, and that is something i didn’t want.

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

• 

  raincoaster · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:25 am

  • Copy link

  “something else would change in the process” what would that be?

  You can change the display name on your Profile Page under NICKNAME or you can change the username, assuming nobody else has had that username, following the instructions in the Support documents. http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/

• 

  rocker0for0life · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:29 am

  • Copy link

  I’ve noticed that when I change what blog I list as my primary one, that it changes to that blog instead. Is that what it refers to?

• 

  raincoaster · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:32 am

  • Copy link

  I’m not following you. The display name and what blog is primary are completely unrelated.

• 

  justjennifer · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:34 am

  • Copy link

  What you’ve shown/described is not the blog ADMIN name. It’s the name of your primary blog.

• 

  rocker0for0life · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:34 am

  • Copy link

  Yea, this is really confusing for me as well… But it DOES happen. When I change what blog I list as my primary one, it changes what I circled in the image above to that. Like in the image above, it says “My Own Writing” but when I change my primary blog to the other, it changes to “My Own Photography”

• 

  rocker0for0life · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:36 am

  • Copy link

  Are you sure justjennifer? Because when I hover over it with my mouse, it says “My Blog Admin”

• 

  justjennifer · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:37 am

  • Copy link

  Yes, that is correct. Your primary blog name shows up like that only on your WordPress.com landing page/new dash, nowhere else.

  Some days I think TPTB like making things confusing.

• 

  justjennifer · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:39 am

  • Copy link

  Sorry, we posted at the same time.

  FWIW-“My Blog Admin” also shows up for me when I hover my cursor over my primary site name in the drop down.

• 

  rocker0for0life · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:39 am

  • Copy link

  Alright… that is really confusing. So there is no way to change it to my username instead?

• 

  justjennifer · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:48 am

  • Copy link

  Not on that screen, apparently.

  opinion/
  Personally, I dislike that entire area of the site. I simply log in to my primary site and then navigate via the drop down menu in the Admin bar, where your username *does* appear.
  /opinion

• 

  rocker0for0life · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 8:50 am

  • Copy link

  Alright, thank you so much for your help :) Very much appreciated