Title: User Names Change
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# User Names Change

 *  [YOUAREtehSCENE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/youaretehscene/)
 * (@youaretehscene)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-names-change/)
 * how can I stop users who join the site, and who have been on the blog stop changing
   there uesr names. with out me known, I have people who register come in as a 
   Subscriber. and I would love to have it so they can’t change it. how can I do
   this?

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 *  [doc4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doc4/)
 * (@doc4)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-names-change/#post-1343676)
 * YOUAREtehSCENE,
 * Wait, you’re saying they can change their role from Subscriber to Editor for 
   example?
 *  Thread Starter [YOUAREtehSCENE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/youaretehscene/)
 * (@youaretehscene)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-names-change/#post-1343686)
 * nope. like I registered this kid as “crash209” since he wrote that down for me,
   and all of a sudden I saw him in on the site as “Carols”
 * So, I’d like to put an end to people changing there screen names.
 *  [doc4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doc4/)
 * (@doc4)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-names-change/#post-1343925)
 * YOUAREtehSCENE,
 * Try this, change the template tag from displaying the “nickname” to displaying
   the “username”. The username cannot be changed, but the nickname can so this 
   is more than likely the solution. Take a look at this WordPress codex page: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_meta](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_author_meta).
   For example you might try:
 * `<?php the_author_meta('user_login'); ?>`
 *  Thread Starter [YOUAREtehSCENE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/youaretehscene/)
 * (@youaretehscene)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-names-change/#post-1343964)
 * Well a friend logged into the blog and he just told me that he changed his name
   the user name is still the same “dru.barrow” but he changed the nickname, anyway
   to cancel peeps from changing there nickname also? Cause it just sucks trying
   to track people and whatnot.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [YOUAREtehSCENE](https://wordpress.org/support/users/youaretehscene/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-names-change/#post-1343964)
 * Status: not resolved

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