Can’t you just change the admin’s nickname to whatever you’d like to display?
Okay, say I did that and then deleted the old “lizvang”. How would that affect the ‘posted by’ tags for posts that are all imported already?
If your try to create a new user/author you’ll se the following warning after the process is done:
Deleting a user also deletes all posts made by that user.
So I’m basically stuck with what I have because if I change the admin nickname to “lizvang”, I’ll have two and that’s just confusing.
What’s the issue you’re trying to solve? Are you wanting to use lizvang as your login or are you wanting it to say “posted by lizvang” instead of admin in the posts? The second is easy to do.
I want 1 user. I want “lizvang” to be admin.
I don’t know if you can do that without mucking around in the mysql database. Looking around in the database using phpMyadmin, that may be possible. Definitely back-up your database before you make any changes if you go that route.
On a new install of WordPress, I went into the mysql database directly and changed user_login and user_nicename in the wp_users table from “admin” to “carl”. I did this instead of just changing the display_as so that my login would be “carl” and so that the URL for my author page would be “/author/carl” not “/author/admin”.
I had to clear out the cache files in wp-content/cache for the change to take effect properly, but after that WordPress had no problem with the change.
