How to change the WordPress admin username

Filed in: Wordpress - Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 at 10:20 am

How to change the default admin WordPress login name:

Login to your cpanel

phpmyadmin

Using your hosts MySQL administration tool (I.E. phpmyadmin), locate and select your WordPress database

selectdatabase

From your WordPress database, locate and select the wp_users table (Note: the wp prefix may differ) and then click the browse icon

wpuser

Next click edit

edit

Under the user_login column, change admin to your preferred WordPress administrative login name and then click go

changename

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Now, you should be able to login with your new administrative WordPress login username

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