Easy Username Updater
A plugin to change registered username and display name.
4.3(39 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated YesterdayAs of April 2026, Easy Username Updater is a WordPress Change Username plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 39 reviews. It has been downloaded 126K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 6% this week. Top alternative: Change Username.
4.3/539 reviews
10K+active installs
126K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
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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Ratings & Reviews
4.339 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works as it should
by fufy·1 month ago
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.
Did not function correctly
by Bri·4 months ago
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.
Works Great – Maintains Account
by slg22853wpfan·4 months ago
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!
saved me!
by illy·5 months ago
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 🙂
it works!
by ajamal·1 year ago
it just works and i’,m glad about ti!
Download Trends
Today: 38Yesterday: 60This week: 354Period total: 27K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
Version 1.0
- Initial release
Contributors
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