Change Your Username

Contents

• Change Display Name (Nickname)
• Change Username
• Gravatar IDs

Related

• Adding Users
• API Keys
• Deleting Accounts
• E-mail Address
• Passwords
• User Profile
• User Roles

You cannot change a WordPress.com account username once it has been set. However, you can change what is seen on your posts and comments by changing the display name (nickname) in your profile, or you can create a new account and transfer your blog(s) to the new account.

Change Display Name (Nickname)

1. Log into http://dashboard.wordpress.com/wp-admin/profile.php
2. Enter a new Nickname.
3. Click Update Profile.
4. Use the Display name publicly as drop-down box and choose the new nickname that you entered.
5. Click Update Profile again.

NOTE: The Display name publicly as drop-down box will also include the values of your First name and Last name fields.

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Change Username

1. Log into your current account (using your existing username)
2. Access your user profile and change the e-mail address to another email address. This will free up your primary e-mail for use with the new username.
3. Once the new address has been verified via email confirmation, log out of the account. Note that it takes about a day for the old email address to get freed up after the new one is verified.
4. Go to http://www.wordpress.com/signup and attempt to register a new account (the username you wish to change to) with your e-mail address.
5. If you’ve got a blog you should transfer its ownership to your new username.

Once you’ve done all of that you’ll be rocking WordPress.com with your new username.

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Gravatar IDs

Do you have a funny looking username assigned through Gravatar that starts with g2-* ?

If so, this was made when an imported Gravatar account had an email address not matching an account with WordPress.com. Please login to WordPress.com and then visit http://wordpress.com/wp-changelogin.php to change this username.

If you want your Gravatar account to match your WordPress account name:

1. Log out of both Gravatar and WordPress.
2. Log into WordPress with the username you’d like to match your Gravatar account name.
3. Log into Gravatar with the user info associated with that account.
4. Add the email associated with that account to your Gravatar account.

That should do the trick!

Last modified: November 7, 2009