Title: Admin username changer
Author: yoshitech
Published: <strong>Agosto 9, 2012</strong>
Last modified: Oktubre 3, 2012

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Admin username changer

 By [yoshitech](https://profiles.wordpress.org/emcode/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/admin-username-changer.zip)

 * [Details](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/admin-username-changer/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/admin-username-changer/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/admin-username-changer/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/admin-username-changer/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-username-changer/)

## Description

Change your admin username to whatever you like. Improve your site security and 
and make life difficult for the hackers.
 Wordpress default administrator username
is admin, which makes the job easier for hackers -they only need to find out the
password. Now, you can change the default admin username to your liking. No one 
will know it and that improves your site security greatly.

**Misc**

 * [Plugin website](http://www.kupimito.com)
 * [Donate](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=SPY83T4ZJM26Y)

## Installation

 1. Install and activate
 2. You will find a new admin menu item ‘Admin username’
 3. Click on it and you will see the current username and the option to change it.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a01bede7971f5674e988410d0c9ccccef9d668f79a1ea8bc5411fb2e2cdd1799?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Various Security Vulnerabilities](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/various-security-vulnerabilities/)󠁿

 [sun](https://profiles.wordpress.org/tha_sun/) Setyembre 3, 2016

This plugin does not sufficiently check access permissions, nor does it validate
the untrusted user input in any way. In addition, this plugin can easily cause name
conflicts with WordPress core code and other plugins, as it uses too generic names
for classes and functions.

 [ Read all 7 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-username-changer/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Admin username changer” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ yoshitech ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/emcode/)

[Translate “Admin username changer” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/admin-username-changer)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/admin-username-changer/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/admin-username-changer/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/admin-username-changer/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/admin-username-changer/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

v1.1

 * important security updates
 * added non-JS support

Credits go to Julio Potier (Juliobox)

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **14 tuig ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.4.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-username-changer/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[hackers](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hackers/)
   [improve](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/improve/)[security](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)
   [username](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/username/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ceb.wordpress.org/plugins/admin-username-changer/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  4 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-username-changer/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-username-changer/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-username-changer/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-username-changer/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  2 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-username-changer/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-username-changer/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

 *   [ yoshitech ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/emcode/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/admin-username-changer/)

## Donate

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