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Changing Your Password and Updating Your Profile

In order to change your password, you must log into WordPress. Once you are logged in you will see an entire header section to the page:

For now, look to the right side. You will see a link in the top right corner (in my picture it is in grey text) that says “Welcome admin!”, where “admin” will be your user name. If you have not already made configuration changes to your site, it will still say “admin”.

If you click that link, you will be taken to the User profile editing page for your own account.

From this page, you can do many things:

Visual Editor

This setting will change how you write and edit posts and pages in WordPress. If you have the box checked (this is preferred for most users) you will be able to use an editor that is very similar to your Office writing and editing software.

Turning it off will give you a normal textarea for typing in.

Admin Color Scheme

This will change the color scheme that you see when you are logged into the admin side of your site. Changing this only effects the colors you see, nothing else.

You can get more control, and colors for your admin color scheme using the Easy Admin Color Schemes Plugin.

Name

Username: You cannot change this. The reason is that WordPress uses this as a unique identifier for you. You can however, change how your username is publicly displayed. This is effectively the same as changing your username. (see Display Name Publicly As).

First Name: This is your first name, or the first name you want to use on the site.

Last Name: This is your last name, or the last name you want to use on the site.

NickName: This is the nickname you would like to use on the site.

Display Name Publicly As:This is where you can choose how your name will be displayed to the public. Your name is displayed on every post that you put into WordPress.
Your list of available names to display is based on the information you have in the previous fields. So, if you enter that data and then save your profile, you will get more options for your display name. Pick one, and save.

Contact Info

Email: This is your email address.

Website: This is your website. This field is more for people who comment on your blog or for authors on the blog and not for the main person writing on the blog. For example, if I wanted to

AIM:Your AIM username. I usually don’t ever use this information on my sites, because I do not want random people sending me IMs.

Yahoo IM:Your Yahoo IM name. I usually don’t ever use this information on my sites, because I do not want random people sending me IMs.

Jabber/Google Talk:Your Google Talk name. I usually don’t ever use this information on my sites, because I do not want random people sending me IMs.

About Yourself

Biographical Information: This is a good place to talk about yourself a little bit, especially if you end up making an author page.

Password: Just enter the password of your dreams.

Once you have all the information into the form, click the Update Profile button to save your settings.

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