Changing your username or adding a new user

Every blog has at least one user: admin, or whichever name was selected when initially setting up by WordPress. But maybe you want more; perhaps you want several authors for your blog. If you want a person to be able to post to your blog, that person must have access to a user account; typically, every person will have their own user account. Via the "Users" Panel in the main navigation menu you can set up all of the user accounts you need, as well as change user information, or delete users. An important administrative feature here is the Roles feature. Depending on their Role, different users have different Capabilities.

Briefly, a user can be assigned the following Roles: Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, or Subscriber.  WordPress has a complete description of these roles. You can also specify your, and others', personal information, such as name, e-mail, etc. from these "Users" SubPanels.

Make your user name more secure

Because WordPress is such a popular content management system (over 40% of the internet!), it is more and more common for hackers to seek out vulnerabilities and exploit any that they find.  One tactic is what are called "brute-force" attacks.  They use computers to attempt to log in to your site over and over again.  Either they will guess your password or they will crash your server from the repeated usage of the login page.   Those who have "admin" as their username or a password like "'123456" or "password123" are more vulnerable since those are easy to guess.  Thus, we encourage all users to change their username from "admin" to something more secure:

1. Create a new user with "administrator" privileges in "Users" > "Add New".
   
2. Enter in your user credentials and generate a good password with lower and uppercase letters, numbers and special characters. 
   
3. Log out and log back in with the new user's credentials.
4. Delete the previous user. After you click "delete" you will be given the option to assign all posts that were authored by old user to the new user. This step is a little scary, we know, but it will work. We can always restore a backup of your site for you if needed.