Title: adding new administrator
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# adding new administrator

 *  Resolved [ronchicago](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronchicago/)
 * (@ronchicago)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-administrator/)
 * i wish to change my admin name from “admin” something else for security reasons.
   when i attempt to add a new admin, i get an error saying my user name is invalid.
   i used a nine character “cryptic” user name.

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 *  Thread Starter [ronchicago](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronchicago/)
 * (@ronchicago)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-administrator/#post-1228475)
 * just changed admin name in mysql. was able to login with new name. anything else
   i need to do ?

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-administrator/#post-1228475)
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