Renaming your WordPress blog administrator user is a huge security step, increasing the safety of your blog. So, what must you do?

It is simple. Sign on and create a new user, giving them administrator permissions. You need to provide an email address, so if you only have the one to use, change the current Admin’s email to a false address, as you can only use each email once per blog.

Now, sign on as the new administrator and remembering the post about user id and nick names, give yourself a good nickname.

Finally, remove the admin id. Some people delete it and move the posts to the new administrator, whilst others just change the permissions of Admin to subscriber, meaning that the user can do nothing at all, but the posts don’t need moving.

As a sign of how important this step is and how WordPress do make changes to keep up with security updates, the system now no longer defaults the administrator to admin, which is great. But, if you created your blog on a WordPress of pre 3.0.0, or you did set it up as Admin when you installed, now is the best time to put the situation right, if you have not already done so.

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