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Easy Username updater is a plugin which allows administrators to change usernames on their site. It provide list of users with their email address,username and role. It changes display name as well.
This plugin also do following:
- Search the user by username, email address, or role.
- Send the updated username to user by email.
How to install?
- Unzip the downloaded «username-updater.zip» file
- Upload the «username-updater» folder to «/wp-content/plugins» directory of your WordPress installation
- Activate the plugin via the WordPress Plugins page
- A new submenu will automatically create on users menu
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Installasjon
- Unzip the downloaded «username-updater.zip» file
- Upload the «username-updater» folder to «/wp-content/plugins» directory of your WordPress installation
- Activate the plugin via the WordPress Plugins page
- A new submenu will automatically create on users menu
Vanlege spm.
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Is that plugin ready for multi-site use?
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Not for multisite now.
Omtalar
20. februar 2026
Works as it should. Here is results and observations:
At the login page, using the old name isn’t recognized anymore, when providing the new name it’s ok and can login successfully.
The «author username» is still the old one instead of the new, i.e. website.com/author/oldname/ (not website.com/author/newname/).
In wpForo forum it’s still recognizes old name «@oldname», not «@newname».
Anyway, as I tested so far still don’t see any error. Things seem to work ok.
23. november 2025
This was recommended in jetpack article but it did not work for me. The name (admin) was not changed when I checked it. I then tried to change it with another plugin but it said it was already taken, so I tried going back into this plugin to «update» it back to admin, and it said I could not because it was already taken. To fix the problem….I just created a new admin account with a new email, logged back in, deleted the original admin and then created a new user with the original email address and new name I was trying to update to.
6. november 2025
This plugin works great for me. I’m able to update the username, yet the user’s account still functions as before with their subscription and settings remaining active/unchanged. Thank you!
31. oktober 2025
works just fine! somehow, one of the editors managed to change the main username of the website (so we ended up with 2 identical usernames for 2 email accounts!!), didn’t wanna touch the DB so this plugin saved me 🙂
28. januar 2025
it just works and i»,m glad about ti!
22. januar 2025
Congrats on your fantastic plugin!
It would be great to have an option to change the slug along with the username. Also, a hint about purging object cache (e.g., for LiteSpeed users) would be helpful.
Thanks!
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Endringslogg
Version 1.0
- Initial release
Version 1.0.1
- Converted to class-based structure
Version 1.0.2
- Added the user search feature
Version 1.0.3
- Added the send email feature
Version 1.0.4
- Added the dataTable