WordPress.com Forums » Topic: WP Username Changed, Want It Back? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wp-username-changed-want-it-back WordPress.com Forums » Topic: WP Username Changed, Want It Back? en Sat, 25 May 2013 05:25:38 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "WP Username Changed, Want It Back?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wp-username-changed-want-it-back#post-835244 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:18:49 +0000 timethief 835244@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

Is there any way to get that back? I still hold and own the blog with the old username.

No, there isn't.
I searched for you and this is what Staff, maxmanx has said in another thread:

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Blog names are the same as usernames for the most part. Usernames can be turned into blog names, but blog names cannot be turned into usernames. http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cant-change-username-because-i-use-same-display-name?replies=5#post-694997

reference link > http://en.support.wordpress.com/change-your-username/

]]> bluerunners on "WP Username Changed, Want It Back?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wp-username-changed-want-it-back#post-834825 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:12:48 +0000 bluerunners 834825@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I changed my WP username for privacy reasons, and while I understood "You will not be able to change your username back.", it did not say that the username was completely unrecoverable. (I literally took it to mean only that I cannot change my new username back to the old one).

I've attempted to register under the old username, but no success. Is there any way to get that back? I still hold and own the blog with the old username.

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