Reasons to change the default administrator username In one of our first blog posts we wrote about ways of securing a WordPress site and prevent it from being hacked. One of the tips mentioned there was about changing the WordPress default admin username. You see most of the earlier WordPress installations were forced to use the "admin" name for the default administrator user role so this made their WP sites vulnerable to brute-force attacks since the attacker already new the username and had to guess or bruteforce the password and then he would be able to access your WordPress site dashboard like a boss. From version 3.0 and on … [Read more...] about How to: Change your WordPress default administrator username