{"id":1017,"date":"2018-01-07T15:19:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demon.comz\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2018-01-07T15:19:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T15:19:56","slug":"how-to-change-the-display-name-of-a-wordpress-user-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/how-to-change-the-display-name-of-a-wordpress-user-account\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the Display Name of a WordPress User Account?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can change the display name of your WordPress account, which shows on a WordPress post or comments without changing your WordPress username.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Login to your WordPress admin dashboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong>Under the dashboard menu, hover your mouse over <strong>Users<\/strong> and then click on <strong>Your Profile<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-your-profile-edit.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Locate <strong>Nickname<\/strong> and enter your new name.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-nick-name-change.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>4<\/strong>. In the option <strong>Display name publicly as<\/strong>, choose your newly added nickname from the drop-down menu.<br \/>\n<strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/kb\/img\/wp-nick-name-dpchange.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"none\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can change the display name of your WordPress account, which shows on a WordPress post or comments without changing your WordPress username. &nbsp; 1. Login to your WordPress admin dashboard. 2. Under the dashboard menu, hover your mouse over Users and then click on Your Profile. 3. Locate Nickname&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostduplex.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}