{"id":5131,"date":"2018-05-15T10:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T10:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truehost.co.ke\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=5131"},"modified":"2024-06-21T08:31:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T08:31:49","password":"","slug":"change-wordpress-users-account-username","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/change-wordpress-users-account-username\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change WordPress users account Username"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usernames and passwords are easily forgotten especially when you can\u2019t recall your email to reset with.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress doesn\u2019t allow username change from the dashboard. We change the username from the database. We use phpMyAdmin to change the username manually in the WordPress MySQL database.<\/p>\n<p>Log in to cPanel.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0Databases\u00a0section of the cPanel home screen, click\u00a0phpMyAdmin.<\/p>\n<p>In the left-hand pane of phpMyAdmin, click the WordPress database. A list of tables in the database appears.<\/p>\n<p>Click the\u00a0<em>wp_users<\/em>\u00a0table.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.truehost.co.ke\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/db-user-300x22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"22\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/db-user-300x22.png 300w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/db-user-50x4.png 50w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/db-user-320x23.png 320w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/db-user.png 485w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0user_login\u00a0column, locate the username that you want to change.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.truehost.co.ke\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/table.png-300x27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"27\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/table.png-300x27.jpg 300w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/table.png-768x68.jpg 768w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/table.png-50x4.jpg 50w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/table.png-600x53.jpg 600w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/table.png-320x28.jpg 320w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/table.png.jpg 879w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Double-click the username, type the new username, and then press Enter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5134\" src=\"https:\/\/www.truehost.co.ke\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/edit.png-300x29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"29\" srcset=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/edit.png-300x29.jpg 300w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/edit.png-768x75.jpg 768w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/edit.png-50x5.jpg 50w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/edit.png-920x90.jpg 920w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/edit.png-600x59.jpg 600w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/edit.png-320x31.jpg 320w, https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/edit.png.jpg 980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Log in to WordPress using the new username. (Your password remains unchanged.)<\/p>\n<p>Under\u00a0Dashboard, click\u00a0Users, and then click\u00a0Your Profile.<\/p>\n<p>Under\u00a0Name, update the\u00a0First Name,\u00a0Last Name,\u00a0Nickname, and\u00a0Display name publicly as\u00a0options for the account.<\/p>\n<p>Click\u00a0Update Profile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usernames and passwords are easily forgotten especially when you can\u2019t recall your email to reset with. WordPress doesn\u2019t allow username change from the dashboard. We change the username from the database. We use phpMyAdmin to change the username manually in the WordPress MySQL database. Log in to cPanel. In the\u00a0Databases\u00a0section of the cPanel home screen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1838],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-5131","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-wordpress"],"year_month":"2026-06","word_count":150,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"simon m","author_nicename":"simon","author_url":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/author\/simon\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"WordPress","term_url":"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/docs-category\/wordpress\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to change WordPress users account Username -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/truehost.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/change-wordpress-users-account-username\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to change WordPress users account Username -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Usernames and passwords are easily forgotten especially when you can\u2019t recall your email to reset with. 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