Title: Changing Login
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Changing Login

 *  [snoozy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snoozy/)
 * (@snoozy)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-login/)
 * How do I change my login? I have my nick changed. Do I need to re-register and
   give my new account permissions? Right now its named ‘admin’ and I want to switch
   that to my username.

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 *  [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/)
 * (@cena)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-login/#post-32301)
 * You should be able to click on ‘my profile’ in the admin screen and make appropriate
   changes.
 *  Thread Starter [snoozy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snoozy/)
 * (@snoozy)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-login/#post-32326)
 * it won’t change my login though, is admin hard coded in? my nick should be my
   login correct?
 *  [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/)
 * (@cena)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-login/#post-32329)
 * Hmm…I see what you mean. I’m using 1.0.1 CVS and I remember when you could change
   your login from admin to ‘nickname’. Doesn’t appear to be that way anymore.
    
   If that’s the case (don’t know if that’s a bug or oversight or what), you have
   a couple of options. 1) login as admin, but have your nickname displayed on your
   blog as an author (by selecting your choice on the ‘identity on blog’ dropdown
   in ‘my profile’; 2) Go through phpmyadmin and manually change the admin login.(
   Edit table ‘wp_users’, then row ‘user_login’ for the appropriate user (admin,
   in this case.) Just change admin to whatever you want, and you should be good
   to go.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Cena (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cena/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-login/#post-32329)
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