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Change Username

By Danny van Kooten
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Description

Change usernames of your WordPress users effectively.

Change Username

This plugin allows you to change usernames of your WordPress users in an effective and safe way.

By default, WordPress itself does not allow usernames to be changed. The other plugins for changing usernames do not scale all that well for sites with a large number of users.

This plugin takes a different approach by simply enhancing the default “edit user” page and then processing the username change over AJAX, resulting in a much faster and user-friendly experience.

Requirements

  • PHP version 7.2 or higher
  • WordPress version 4.1 or higher

About the author

Danny van Kooten has been developing plugins for WordPress since version 3.0, all the way back in 2010. Read more about him on his personal website or have a look at his various other WordPress plugins.

Screenshots

  • What changing a username with this plugin looks like.

Installation

Installing the plugin

  1. In your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins > New Plugin, search for Change Username and click “Install now“
  2. Alternatively, download the plugin and upload the contents of change-username.zip to your plugins directory, which usually is /wp-content/plugins/.
  3. Activate the plugin

FAQ

Where is the settings page?

Change Username does not come with its own settings page. You can change the username of your users on the page where you would normally edit that user.

Can users change their own username?

Not right now. Only logged-in users with the edit_users capability can change usernames.

Can I use this plugin on MultiSite?

Yes.

Reviews

It still works well but hasn’t been updated in a long time

default-design 29 Lúnasa, 2023
It still works well but it hasn’t been updated in a long time, so I recommend another one: WP Edit Username

this did nothing

ofihsdfoi 3 Eanáir, 2023
I typed in the new username, but nothing happened. It does not work.

Great idea, as sometimes emails can become usernames

recons 10 Márta, 2017
Great idea, as sometimes emails can become usernames, which is not desirable. Or generally changing other undesirable instances.
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Contributors & Developers

“Change Username” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors
  • Danny van Kooten
  • ibericode

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Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.0.2 – Oct 04, 2024

  • Show message when new username is less than 3 characters long.
  • Show message when new username is more than 60 characters long.
  • Improved request validation in general.
  • Remove ES6 code from JS file to support a wider range of browsers.
  • Bump required PHP version to 7.2 or higher.

1.0.1 – Dec 23, 2022

  • Always load minified JS asset by default

1.0 – Dec 2016

Initial release.

Meta

  • Version 1.0.2
  • Last updated 7 mí ago
  • Active installations 4,000+
  • WordPress version 4.1 or higher
  • Tested up to 6.6.2
  • PHP version 7.2 or higher
  • Language
    English (US)
  • Tags
    Change LoginChange Usernameloginusername
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4 out of 5 stars.
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  • 1 2-star review 2 stars 1
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Contributors

  • Danny van Kooten
  • ibericode

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