Title: Changing Usernames in phpMyAdmin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Changing Usernames in phpMyAdmin

 *  [Stunt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stunt/)
 * (@stunt)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-usernames-in-phpmyadmin/)
 * I’ve a desperate need to change mine and a few of my colleagues’ sign-in names
   in phpMyAdmin — for professional purposes (i.e. our sign-in names would change
   to our full first and last names, so that when our author archives are accessed
   it’ll be through [http://site.com/author/josephgerald](http://site.com/author/josephgerald)).
 * Will changing the user name in phpMyAdmin have any effect on the posts our names
   are already tied to?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-usernames-in-phpmyadmin/#post-1842717)
 * You don’t have to change your login user names. Simply add your first & last 
   names to your profiles and then set your display name to show these – again in
   your profiles.
 *  Thread Starter [Stunt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stunt/)
 * (@stunt)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-usernames-in-phpmyadmin/#post-1842965)
 * I don’t think you understand.
 * Sure, I can change my display name to whatever I desire whenever I like, but 
   that will never change the fact that my author URL will remain something like:
   [http://site.com/author/homedawg4](http://site.com/author/homedawg4).
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-usernames-in-phpmyadmin/#post-1842967)
 * > Will changing the user name in phpMyAdmin have any effect on the posts our 
   > names are already tied to?
 * I don’t believe it will have any problems. Since the comments and posts are grabbed
   from that table, they should magically update.

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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-usernames-in-phpmyadmin/#post-1842967)
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