Change Username

Por Danny van Kooten

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Descrição

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.

Ecrãs

What changing a username with this plugin looks like.

Instalação

Installing the plugin

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

Perguntas frequentes

Where is the settings page?: Change Username does not come with its own settings page. You can change the username of your users on the page where you would normally edit that user.
Can users change their own username?: Not right now. Only logged-in users with the edit_users capability can change usernames.
Can I use this plugin on MultiSite?: Yes.

Avaliações

pawelboc 27 Outubro, 2025

Super!

clip1492 26 Junho, 2025

The plugin does exactly what it promises — and it does it well, without any issues. Some might point out the lack of frequent updates, but in my opinion, that’s actually a good sign: when a plugin this simple works reliably, it means there’s nothing that needs fixing.It also integrates perfectly into the user page, with no bloat or unnecessary overhead — clean, simple and efficient.