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How to recover Phantom WordPress Username?

• OK Wordpress junkies try this one: A while back I started an account with a name we will call Username-1. For a bunch of reasons I then changed the username to something else which we will call Username-2. Once I did that I later also changed the e-mail address and today there is really no original connection with Username-1 Sio yesterday I went to start a new account and went to use Username-1. I was told this name already existed. WordPress had not deleted my old username, just changed it. But I can't get in with the password. Since I changed the email address, I get an error saying the e-mail address for a password reset is wrong and it is possible the username is unconnected to an e-mail. So Username-1 still exists, but like a Phantom in cyber space. I have no other programs I use so the other password reset options are useless to me. Is there any way to recover Username-1? Or is it condemned to be like a ghost in the interwebz forevermore???

• Answer:

  You'll need to get into the database and delete the username there. If you have CPanel, use phpMyAdmin to access the DB. Brett Alan Bern