Title: Username not postname
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Username not postname

 *  Resolved [gregersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregersen/)
 * (@gregersen)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-not-postname/)
 * I have changed my username in the php database but my blog posts still says by:
   old username. How come? It says the correct user name in the WP admin, but on
   the web pages it doesn’t.
 * ——————————————————————–
 * I’m correcting myself here because I finally discovered that I can put a name
   in “Display name publicly as” in the profile set up. I chose to not delete this
   question in case someone else had the same Q.

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 *  [Borko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/media-x/)
 * (@media-x)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-not-postname/#post-3686268)
 * Did you change your screen name also (in your profile page)?
    Hint: Display name
   publicly as
 *  Thread Starter [gregersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregersen/)
 * (@gregersen)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-not-postname/#post-3686270)
 * Media X, yes – I posted my corrected edit at the same time as you responded. 
   It took a while for me to spot that feature in the back-end. Thanks anyway:)
 *  [Borko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/media-x/)
 * (@media-x)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-not-postname/#post-3686275)
 * Mark this topic as resolved 😉
 *  Thread Starter [gregersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregersen/)
 * (@gregersen)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-not-postname/#post-3686304)
 * Thanks.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [gregersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregersen/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/username-not-postname/#post-3686304)
 * Status: resolved

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