WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Pay to unlock old user name? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pay-to-unlock-old-user-name WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Pay to unlock old user name? en Tue, 21 May 2013 21:55:19 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 kardotim on "Pay to unlock old user name?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pay-to-unlock-old-user-name#post-1075498 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:29:23 +0000 kardotim 1075498@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's not possible to recover deleted usernames. You can change the name displayed on your posts and comments by changing the "display name" on your Personal Settings admin panel:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/#change-display-name-nickname

You can watch a video showing how to change your display name here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/#change-display-name-nickname

]]> portapez on "Pay to unlock old user name?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pay-to-unlock-old-user-name#post-1075262 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 03:18:11 +0000 portapez 1075262@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've changed the user name of one of my accounts so I could use it in another account, but I didn't paid attention by changing a user name the old one is invalidated in the system forever.

I really want to undo this. Could WP have an item in the Store so users could unlock and re-validate old user names and make it live again?

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