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# Changing a WordPress account username

> Learn how to easily change your WordPress username in this article.

This article describes how to change the username for a WordPress account.

## Changing a WordPress username

After you create a WordPress login account, you may want to change the username. However, you cannot do this from the WordPress administration screen. Instead, you can use phpMyAdmin to change the username manually in the WordPress MySQL database.

To do this, follow these steps:

1. Log in to cPanel.

2. In the **Databases** section of the cPanel home screen, click **phpMyAdmin**.

3. In the left-hand pane of phpMyAdmin, click the WordPress database. A list of tables in the database appears.
   > 📘 Note
   >
   > Typically, the WordPress database is **username\_wpXXX** , where *username* represents your cPanel username, and *XXX* is a three-digit number.

4. Click the *wp\_users* table.

5. In the **user\_login** column, locate the username that you want to change.

6. Double-click the username, type the new username, and then press Enter.

7. Log in to WordPress using the new username. (Your password remains unchanged.)

8. Under **Dashboard**, click **Users**, and then click **Your Profile**.

9. Under **Name**, update the **First Name**, **Last Name**, **Nickname**, and **Display name publicly as** options for the account.
   > 👍 Tip
   >
   > You can also change the user password on this page.

10. Click **Update Profile**.

## Related articles

* [Resetting the WordPress administrator password](/docs/resetting-the-wordpress-administrator-password)