{"id":996,"date":"2014-02-11T18:24:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wphelpclub.com\/blog\/?p=996"},"modified":"2014-02-11T18:26:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T17:26:25","slug":"change-admin-user-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wphelpclub.com\/blog\/change-admin-user-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change your Admin user name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Quick post here to show you how to get rid of your admin user called &#8220;admin&#8221;  (the default wordpress admin username).<\/p>\n<p>You have 2 ways to do it:<\/p>\n<p>1) change the password directly in the database (if you&#8217;re not techy this is not for you)<\/p>\n<p>2) Create a new admin user through your wordpress dashboard, and delete the admin user called &#8220;admin&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the steps:<\/p>\n<p><strong> #1 Create a new user<\/strong> and assign him the role of Administrator (choose the role in the dropdown at the bottom of the page). Go to Users\/Add new. You&#8217;ll have to use a temporary different email address since you can&#8217;t have 2 users with the same email address<\/p>\n<p><strong>#2 logout of your dashboard<\/strong> and log back in with the newly created user<\/p>\n<p><strong>#3 Go to Users in the left menu and delete the admin user<\/strong> called &#8220;admin&#8221;, once you do that WordPress will ask you what you want to do with the posts that where posted under the user &#8220;admin&#8221; if you have any, you can then choose to assign these posts to your newly created administrator user.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>#4 (OPTIONAL if you want to use the email address<\/strong> that the user called &#8220;admin&#8221; was using) Edit your new user and change the email address <\/strong>if you want to use the email address you had before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That&#8217;s it!! Any question, please leave a comment below and I&#8217;ll be happy to help, and please share if you like \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, Quick post here to show you how to get rid of your admin user called &#8220;admin&#8221; (the default wordpress admin username). 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