Change Username

Change usernames of your WordPress users effectively.

Change Username

This plugin allows you to change usernames of your WordPress users in an effective and safe way.

By default, WordPress itself does not allow usernames to be changed. The other plugins for changing usernames do not scale all that well for sites with a large number of users.

This plugin takes a different approach by simply enhancing the default “edit user” page and then processing the username change over AJAX, resulting in a much faster and user-friendly experience.

Requirements

• PHP version 7.2 or higher
• WordPress version 4.1 or higher

About the author

Danny van Kooten has been developing plugins for WordPress since version 3.0, all the way back in 2010. Read more about him on his personal website or have a look at his various other WordPress plugins.

Installing the plugin

1. In your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins > New Plugin, search for Change Username and click “Install now“
2. Alternatively, download the plugin and upload the contents of change-username.zip to your plugins directory, which usually is /wp-content/plugins/.
3. Activate the plugin

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   What changing a username with this plugin looks like.

1.0.2 – Oct 04, 2024

• Show message when new username is less than 3 characters long.
• Show message when new username is more than 60 characters long.
• Improved request validation in general.
• Remove ES6 code from JS file to support a wider range of browsers.
• Bump required PHP version to 7.2 or higher.

1.0.1 – Dec 23, 2022

• Always load minified JS asset by default

1.0 – Dec 2016

Initial release.