You may want to change your WordPress username if you have a username something like “ADMIN” or may “yourblogname” etc
As these names are pretty easy to guess and thus make your blog prone to be hacked.
WordPress by default does not offer you to change your login name,but by using your phpmyadmin you can change your WordPress login name and even retrieve your password.
How to change login username in WordPress.
Go to your cpanel and in their navigate to phpmyadmin.
Once you are in their locate the data base that has your WordPress installation.
Select your WordPress data base
OPen the data base and look for the file named and open it.
Now you should see a list of files looking like this.
Click on the browse button
OPen the one named as wp_users by clicking on the first icon on the right hand side of the file.
Now will see your user name and encrypted form of your password.
click on the pencil icon
Click on the pencil icon to change your WordPress login users name and/or password
Enter the new login username in front of the user_login and/or new password in front of the user_pass
Once you have entered new the login username or/and passwords,click on the drop down right in front of the user_pass and select MD5( this will encrypt your password).
That done click on Go and that’s it now you have changed your WordPress login username and login password.
Editor’s Note : Alternatively you can use wp-optimize Wordpress plugin to quickly change username with one click.
This useful tutorial is presented by our guest author Shoaib , who writes at what-what.net. If you like to Write for Shoutmeloud read : Shoutmeloud Revenue Sharing Program.
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Nice tutorial with images. will change it.
yeah ,its nice to have both a good username and a good password .
Nice tutorial for people who did`nt know how to do this.
i simply create new admin account and delete the admin one..
This is great as it’s for your security =)
Hmm..for newbie or end-user, this is very helpful.
Wouldn’t it be easier to create a new admin with any name and delete the default admin?
This is just hypothetical -”what if you forgot ur wp login(just hypothetical) or may be ur blog is hacked and ur not even able to login into ur wp dashboard.
I would suggest you to use Wp-Optimize plugin instead. It directly allows you to rename the login userid. This avoids you to go through all the trouble of changing values in the database manually. Give it a try!
Great info.. I used another method told by harsh in another post
nyways thanks for sharing …
awesome post harsh…..i always used to think that admin is too vulnerable….one of the best tutorials i have ever read
I thought that it was not possible. But this phpmyadmin trick works well. Thanks for the guest post.
@Amandeep @Tushar @Pascal u r welcome.
How about this one? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/admin-renamer-extended/