How to change your Wordpress username

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Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t allow you to edit your username(even if you are the admin). You can’t change the username directly, but thankfully there is a work-around.

  1. Create a new user and give them administrator privileges.
  2. Logout of WordPress and log back in with the new user’s credentials.
  3. Delete the old administrator
  4. If the old administrator created any posts, WordPress will prompt you to either attribute the posts to the new user or delete the posts entirely. If there are no posts associated with the user, WordPress will ask you to confirm deletion.
  5. Now you have the admin username you want.