Sometimes a user wants to change their username but WordPress does not appear have a simple method to do this. Luckily there is a fast way to change your user name with a simple trick. In this video, we will show you how to change your WordPress username.

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Summary of this Tutorial:

Start by going to Users, Add New User and create a new admin with your preferred username.

Once that new user is set up log in as it and delete your old user.

This will ope a page allowing you to attribute the content from the old user to any user you like so you do not lose anything.

Confirm the delete and you now have a new username to use.

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