Yes, I have the same question.
I tried ActivityPub plugin and noticed that it uses the admin username.
Even though I uninstalled the plugin, the user name can be found in search in my Mastodon instance. How to prevent the search result showing admin handle?
My immediate thought is to make an editor account and use that instead. Or make a new admin account and downgrade the current one to editor.
And then I assume I have to change the author for all posts to the editor account.
The editor account trick does not work, tried it.
But there is an another thread which provides solution
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-to-create-aliases/
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This reply was modified 3 months, 4 weeks ago by
stedi.
So once Webfinger is installed, the nice name will work if it does not have any spaces or special characters?
Actually, I made an author account and it seems to work. I had to edit some posts to change the author to the new account.
I installed Webfinger and now I am able to search my profile with my nicename. But unfortunately the profile shown includes the unwanted user_login … it would be nice, if this is editable.
Ah – I should try that. The profile link shown is only on our profile edit page, right?
