How to change Wordpress username through phpMyAdmin

by Admin on September 4, 2009

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Many of you may be knowing that changing Wordpress login username is one of the ways to protect your Wordpress blog. After a fresh install of Wordpress on your host, you sign in with the default username “admin“. You cannot change this username directly from the Admin panel.

But don’t worry! There’s another way to change this username. It’s through phpMyAdmin. This is not a new hack/method. But, it’s quite useful from security point of view, esp. for Wordpress newbies.

Following are the steps to change Wordpress username through phpMyAdmin:

Step 1: Login to your phpMyAdmin using your SQL Database username and password

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This can be done through cPanel of your host.

Step 2: Browse to your blog’s database

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Step 3: Find wp_users:

(Edit the default WordPress table prefix “wp_” if needed)

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Once you click on browse in your wp_users database, you will be shown the users on this blog. Scroll down to the ID which says user_login as admin(by default). Once there click on edit button, the edit button will appear as a pencil logo.

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Step 4: Edit the values:

Once clicked on edit, you will be taken to a page that appears as below. Here the second field user_login will have admin under the value column. Change this from admin to anything you prefer.

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Once done with the change save and click go on the page.

There we have changed the WordPress user from the default admin to something we prefer. This is one way to ensure your WordPress blog is one step secure than it was before.

Happy Blogging.

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Bogcess September 6, 2009 at 1:52 pm

A very detailed information on how to change it. Keep it up and more power!

PAB September 7, 2009 at 8:05 pm

Nice one. could be useful for me in the future.

uday September 10, 2009 at 6:55 am

Thanks – Actually got bored with admin!

Nasif September 19, 2009 at 1:16 am

Lol uday. Same here got bored with admin hehe

Nerissa Marbury January 20, 2010 at 10:25 am

Thank you! I am in the process of manually reinstalling my wordpress and this post was extremely helpful.

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