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  checkers36 · Member · Oct 18, 2021 at 5:34 pm

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  I want my site name to be different than my username. It was not pointed out when I created my account that the username would be used for the site name.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Oct 19, 2021 at 8:43 am

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  Hi there,

  I’m assuming you refer to your site’s address, checkers36.wordpress.com. You have three options to have that different from your username:

  1) Create a second site in your account with a different address. Just go to https://wordpress.com/start/site/ to do that.

  2) You can change your free address to a different one. Note that will delete the current address, and you won’t be able to use it again in future.

  https://wordpress.com/support/changing-site-address/

  3) You can add a custom domain to your site, replacing the free address, using any of our paid plans:

  https://wordpress.com/support/domains/

  It’s also worth mentioning that your site’s name/title has nothing to do with the address. Initially it’s set the same, but you can change the site title that appears at the top from Settings ->General to be whatever you want.

  You can also set a public display name in place of your username, that can be whatever you want. You do that on the profile page at https://wordpress.com/me/