Title: Username changes
Last modified: July 31, 2025

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# Username changes

 *  Resolved [dplusgomes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hospvetsantamarinha/)
 * (@hospvetsantamarinha)
 * [10 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-changes/)
 * Hi guys,
 * Any chance to change my username url? 
   My username is connected to previous company
   and i don’t want to use it (also, don’t want to create a new account and lose
   this account and info)
 * Any chance to change it to my profile name? Thanks a lot.

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [10 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-changes/#post-18580830)
 * I’m sorry, but due to how WordPress.org and other non-WordPress software ties
   together on this site, it is not possible to change user IDs here.
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-changes/#post-18580852)
 * While the WordPress code does permit the changing of usernames, due to how this
   site’s systems interact with many other systems it is not possible to change 
   user IDs here. It breaks many things badly when it is even tried. And it has 
   been tried before.
 * however, you can change the display name.
 * If you want a new user ID then create a new one and abandon this one. You will
   need a different email address for that new account.
 *  [Okwanga Oscar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/urbanoscar/)
 * (@urbanoscar)
 * [8 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-changes/#post-18641082)
 * No, you cannot change your username on a WordPress.org account once it has been
   set. However, you can create a new account with a different username if necessary
   but if you want to change how your name appears publicly (for example, for blog
   posts or comments), you can modify the display name in your profile settings 
   without changing your username.

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 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Okwanga Oscar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/urbanoscar/)
 * Last activity: [8 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-changes/#post-18641082)
 * Status: resolved

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