Title: Username necessary?
Last modified: November 16, 2022

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# Username necessary?

 *  [echoleaf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/echoleaf/)
 * (@echoleaf)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-necessary/)
 * I try not to publish my username, since it’s an admin account on the site. Is
   there any way around this?

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 *  [stedi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stedi/)
 * (@stedi)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-necessary/#post-16210244)
 * 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?
 *  Thread Starter [echoleaf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/echoleaf/)
 * (@echoleaf)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-necessary/#post-16212586)
 * 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.
 *  [stedi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stedi/)
 * (@stedi)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-necessary/#post-16223235)
 * 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/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-to-create-aliases/)
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by [stedi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stedi/).
 *  Thread Starter [echoleaf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/echoleaf/)
 * (@echoleaf)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-necessary/#post-16224383)
 * So once Webfinger is installed, the nice name will work if it does not have any
   spaces or special characters?
 *  Thread Starter [echoleaf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/echoleaf/)
 * (@echoleaf)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-necessary/#post-16224409)
 * 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.
 *  [filmfacts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filmfacts/)
 * (@filmfacts)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-necessary/#post-16417026)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [echoleaf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/echoleaf/)
 * (@echoleaf)
 * [3 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-necessary/#post-16422520)
 * Ah – I should try that. The profile link shown is only on our profile edit page,
   right?

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