default user — admin

  • i used the ‘5-min install’ when i set up my account and site. at every juncture, i carefully read the instructions, and those instructions assured me that some key pieces of info were able to later be changed if i needed to, so i picked some defaults–thinking it would be best to start that way and then change as i learned more.

    i spent a couple of weeks now getting my site ready…i’m almost there! and then i saw i should be upgrading. i read up about wp upgrades, and noticed that there was previously a bunch of hacking going on due to so many people using the default sign-in of ‘admin’ — making the hacking job easy. Needless to say, that was one of my defaults.

    so… i went back to change my username, and now discover that user names cannot be changed! what can i do? what’s the fix–given i have a ton of time invested in this. i am still too inexperienced to make any big changes, and i am quite nervous about losing all the work i did on my site if i have to make any complex or risky changes.

    i hope i’m not the only one to recently make this mistake.

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  • Change Admin Username: https://w-shadow.com/blog/2008/07/24/change-admin-username-in-wordpress/

    Install, use and then delete.

    Thread Starter TheyKeepMovingTheCheese

    (@theykeepmovingthecheese)

    hi –

    thanks for getting back so quickly!!

    i read that some of those who used this app had some (apparently minor) issues. not sure if i want to run into something unexpected later due to it not being comprehensive, but if nothing else can work, i will prob take the chance.

    i did finally find a post on this forum from back 3 years ago that talked about setting up a second administrative account, and then deleting the orig ‘admin’. given, i already do have another administrative account signed up anyway…that would really be the easist.

    so, can i just delete the orig user, or would the database encounter errors when trying to access that orig, non-existent admin??? in other words, isn’t my whole account tied to the ‘admin’ profile, and if so, if deleted, would it not make my situation worse?

    it also gave an option of a sql command to replace the username. the command line looked easy enough, but i have no idea how to access and ‘talk’ to the sql server, and experimenting on my admin account with unfamiliar tools isn’t very appealing. lol

    yes, i’m a wimp–i would like to take the easy way here. yet i don’t want to make things worse in the future just to save some grief now.

    thank you for being there for us!

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    edit — (i’m not well-versed in this stuff, and it takes time to figure out what is being explained since i don’t know a lot of the basics). after yet more reading, i now understand that the plugin does exactly that change to the sql database — it runs an app that will make the change for me. interesting…then i wonder why some of the errors?

    anyway…what about changing to another admin–is that better or worse?

    thanks!

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