Username modification

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Usernames can’t be changed, sorry.

    Thread Starter Patrick Daly

    (@developdaly)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    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

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    10 years, 8 months ago

    It’s not doable currently so you’ll have to wait for it to be developed.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    10 years, 8 months ago

    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

    Make THAT “Developdaly”

    Done.

    Thread Starter Patrick Daly

    (@developdaly)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    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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