Title: Edit Admin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Edit Admin

 *  [0steven0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/0steven0/)
 * (@0steven0)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-admin/)
 * Hello everyone,
 * This is my first attempt to use WordPress to power my whole site, and so far 
   it is great! However, I noticed you can’t edit the admin username. So…
 * What would happen if I edited it manually through the database? Would it break?
   What do you guys do, because all the WP blogs I’ve seen don’t say Admin on them.
   Do you create another account?
 * Just curious!

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 *  [openpundit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/openpundit/)
 * (@openpundit)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-admin/#post-532508)
 * There are 2 things:
 * Your login name
    Your nickname
 * The login name you cant change
    The nickname you can make anything you want
 * To create a nickname, go to your ->profile
    Look for ‘Display Name Publicly’and
   a dropdown box Look what is in there If ‘Admin’ is the only option, look right
   above In the ‘Nickname’ field put what you want to be called Update your profile
   Now, look in the same dropdown box You should see your newly picked nickname 
   Choose it, then update your profile again Look up it should greet you with your
   new nickname, as well as on the public site
 *  [Drawer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drawer/)
 * (@drawer)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-admin/#post-532986)
 * I was going to edit user name to include my email, but realized that looked dumb.
   So I did nothing on the Edit User name. Now I get no author name next to the 
   post at all.
 * I did exactly as openpundit said above: both my first name and nickname are the
   same. Updated. No name at all appears in my post next to the date.
 * [http://www.donnabarstow.com/park_blog/](http://www.donnabarstow.com/park_blog/)
 * Thanks for giving me my name back.
 *  [Sridhar Katakam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/srikat/)
 * (@srikat)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-admin/#post-532987)
 * Is this line still present in your theme’s index.php?
 * `<p class="post-info"><?php the_time('M jS, Y') ?> by <?php the_author_posts_link()?
   > <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?> </p>`
 *  [Drawer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drawer/)
 * (@drawer)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-admin/#post-532988)
 * Srikat, MANY THANKS! No, it wasn’t there (the author posts part), so I copied
   your line and now it’s fine. I don’t know how it disappeared, but WordPress has
   its mysteries…
 * Thanks again for such a speedy answer!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Drawer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drawer/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-admin/#post-532988)
 * Status: not resolved

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