Description
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
Screenshots
The main interface 
Update username
Installation
- 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
FAQ
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Is that plugin ready for multi-site use?
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Not for multisite now.
Reviews
Gulshan Kumar
January 22, 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!
smkstoll
January 9, 2025
If you’ve ever had to do this manually then you’ll love this plugin especially if you are updating multiple usernames for security reasons.
Ishko
November 27, 2024
This plugin is simple to use. Changing username is sometimes dangerous in itself and can break relations of the user with other plugins but if you know what you are doing, there is no issue with this one. Don’t use on multisite.
roger7
October 3, 2024
Did just what I needed. Thanks!
lmclapp68
March 15, 2024
This broke my Wordpress installation, causing it to allocate infinite memory and hanging/crashing Apache.
I had to reboot my server, shut down Apache, look at the plugin source, guess at what it did (I don’t know PHP), and directly update the wp_users table to undo what this plugin had done.
“Luckily” (I guess???) it had merely updated the user_login and display_name columns of the wp_users table, so all I had to do was change them back, and restart Apache, and that seemed to do the trick.
To be fair, this plugin was not listed as compatible with my version of Wordpress. It’s tested up to 6.3.3 and I’m on 6.4.3. But I would not have thought that a single point-release of difference would have caused this much trouble.
At a guess, some other (perhaps poorly or improperly written) plugin I have broke this one. I dunno.
The actual error in Apache was
[Fri Mar 15 14:28:03.740838 2024] [php7:error] [pid 1170] [client 166.194.200.119:63984] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 262144 bytes) in /path/to/my/domain.com/wp-includes/class-wp-user.php on line 248
Contributors & Developers
“Easy Username Updater” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
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