Title: Changing user id ?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Changing user id ?

 *  [BarryJackson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barryjackson/)
 * (@barryjackson)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-user-id/)
 * I put in my wrong email address when I got into the program. WordPress let me
   correct the email address, but it will not let me correct the email address that
   is currently my user id. I would really like to get away from using my email 
   address as my user id and replace it with my name. Can you help with this matter?
   
   Thanks, Barry Jackson

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 *  [George Appiah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gappiah/)
 * (@gappiah)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-user-id/#post-4370144)
 * I suppose you mean username, and not user ID. It’s not possible to change the
   username from the WordPress dashboard — you can only do so by hitting the database
   directly.
 * Easier to simply create a new user with same privileges and delete the current
   one.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-user-id/#post-4370144)
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