Title: Disable username
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Disable username

 *  [nyckidd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nyckidd/)
 * (@nyckidd)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-username/)
 * Hello,
 * Am interested in disabling the username since i will be using the users first
   and last name on the site….how do i disable the username section on the registration
   page ? or even make it so it is not a required field ?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-username/#post-2072463)
 * I’m afraid that’s not possible. WordPress uses the username internally.
 *  Thread Starter [nyckidd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nyckidd/)
 * (@nyckidd)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-username/#post-2072467)
 * Thanks for the quick reply , just to go around it how do i make the username 
   a non required field ie it is not validated so I can simply enter any name and
   then hide the field using CSS ?
 *  Thread Starter [nyckidd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nyckidd/)
 * (@nyckidd)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-username/#post-2072469)
 * Essentially I just wanna hide the username field with a default value
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-username/#post-2072471)
 * What you are trying to do isn’t possible within WordPress.
 *  [Frankie Jarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fjarrett/)
 * (@fjarrett)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-username/#post-2072995)
 * [@nyckidd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nyckidd/) Unfortunately for what
   you described [@esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) is right.
 * However, you could write a plugin which renames the Username field to “E-mail”
   and make the real email field mirror that username value. Then you could simply
   hide the real email address field.
 * I know it’s a bit confusing, but in theory, it should work. Hope you understand
   what I mean 🙂

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Frankie Jarrett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fjarrett/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/disable-username/#post-2072995)
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