Title: Username modification
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Username modification

 *  Resolved [Patrick Daly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/developdaly/)
 * (@developdaly)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-modification/)
 * I’ve been meaning to try to get this fixed for a couple of years now … just now
   getting around to it.
 * My profile ( [http://profiles.wordpress.org/developdaly](http://profiles.wordpress.org/developdaly))
   lists my plugins and themes. You’ll see one of them called “Email”. Click on 
   it and you’ll land on [http://wordpress.org/plugins/email/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/email/).
   Now look at my username in the sidebar … it’s not linked back to my profile.
 * This is because my username was incorrectly capitalized years and years ago when
   the account was created. Some sections of wordpress.org aren’t case-sensitive;
   others are.
 * **Is there any way I can get my username changed from “Developdaly” to “developdaly”**,
   since everything on this site is pointing to the lowercase version anyway?

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-modification/#post-3993951)
 * Usernames can’t be changed, sorry.
 *  Thread Starter [Patrick Daly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/developdaly/)
 * (@developdaly)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-modification/#post-3993968)
 * Don’t get me wrong … I understand the severity of changing a username; it likely
   requires one of the few with database access to manually change it … a task I
   would restrict from happening in 99.99% of cases.
 * And I wouldn’t be asking if it were a request to wholly change my username, but
   this is a bug on the .org side. At least according to the plugin/theme attribution
   on profile pages, username case does not matter.
 * There’s two solutions here: change .org’s code to be case insensitive in the 
   places it isn’t already OR change my username. The latter is likely easier, so
   maybe there’s *some* way we can make this happen?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-modification/#post-3993971)
 * It’s not doable currently so you’ll have to wait for it to be developed.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-modification/#post-3994097)
 * >  The latter is likely easier
 * It’s not :/
 * WordPress.org support forum IDs tie into: support forums, theme repo, plugin 
   repo, trac, meta trac, make blogs, codex, and more.
 * Hence it’s a mess like you don’t wanna know. And they’re ALL flippin’ case sensitive.
   So thats multiple DBs to change, and god help us if we miss one.
 * Your fix?
 * Edit this line: [http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email/trunk/readme.txt#L2](http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/email/trunk/readme.txt#L2)
 * Make THAT “Developdaly”
 * Done.
 *  Thread Starter [Patrick Daly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/developdaly/)
 * (@developdaly)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-modification/#post-3994358)
 * Lo’ and behold … I mention this after years of it being a problem and one week
   later it’s fixed. But, I can’t find anything in Trac that points to what would
   have changed unless someone (without telling me) made the DB changes.

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 * Last reply from: [Patrick Daly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/developdaly/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-modification/#post-3994358)
 * Status: resolved

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