Comments on: Changing your WordPress Admin Username http://iampearce.com/2008/07/changing-your-wordpress-admin-username/ Homepage of 18 year old internet nerd, George Pearce. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:46:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Donald Kelly http://iampearce.com/2008/07/changing-your-wordpress-admin-username/#comment-238 Donald Kelly Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:08:54 +0000 http://www.gpearce.co.uk/?p=985#comment-238 Another alternative would be to simply create a new user with the desired username, add Administrator privileges to the account and then simply transfer the ownership of your posts from the standard "Admin" default, to the new account. This is a simpler fool-proof alternative that I've used in the past, and it doesn't require going into phpmyadmin. To be fair, Neither of these options are a good idea for blogs with more than one author. -DK Another alternative would be to simply create a new user with the desired username, add Administrator privileges to the account and then simply transfer the ownership of your posts from the standard “Admin” default, to the new account. This is a simpler fool-proof alternative that I’ve used in the past, and it doesn’t require going into phpmyadmin. To be fair, Neither of these options are a good idea for blogs with more than one author.

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