How to Change Your Default WordPress Username
June 15, 2009 by Mark
Filed under Tips & Tricks
Every fresh WordPress installation has a default username admin. There is no option to change this username during installation. Because the admin is a well known username, you might get the risk of being brute force attack and could be a disastrous for your Website or blog. To avoid this risk you should change the default username to something unique.
If you have a root access to your webhosting account. Initiate a SSH session. Then connect to your MySQL server by using the following command:
mysql -u username -p