{"id":6017,"date":"2021-10-08T10:48:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T10:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spareidea.com\/help\/docs\/account\/overview\/view-change-your-username\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:26:25","slug":"changing-your-username","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/account\/account-settings\/changing-your-username\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing your username"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You are automatically assigned a username when you register, which is usually your full name in lowercase. If this is already taken because someone has the same name, then your username will include a number at the end of it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgba(7,146,227,0) 0%,rgb(173,111,174) 100%)\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Changing your username will break all links to your profile.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>This could impact judges and candidates for on-going calls, so it best to wait until you have no open calls.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>To view and edit your username:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/34.89.9.203.nip.io\/wpadmin2\/docs\/account\/logging-in\/logging-in\/\">Log in<\/a> to your account<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on the cog icon next to your profile photo in the top right corner and go to settings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scroll down until you find &#8216;Change Username&#8217;, where you will find your assigned username<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To edit your username, change the value in the white username field and click save &#8211; a green tick will indicate the username is available  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"213\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6083 lazyload\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Change-Username-1024x213.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Change-Username-1024x213.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Change-Username-300x62.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Change-Username-768x159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Change-Username.jpg 1031w\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You will find the new link to your portfolio in the right hand side in the grey box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are automatically assigned a username when you register, which is usually your full name in lowercase. If this is already taken because someone has the same name, then your username will include a number at the end of it.&nbsp; Changing your username will break all links to your profile. This could impact judges and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":13638,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6017","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/6017\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/13638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=6017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}