{"id":1979,"date":"2025-02-20T23:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-ecuad.ca\/support\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2026-10-20T21:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T21:41:49","slug":"updating-name-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/updating-name-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating your name and profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Set the name that appears on your posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Point to your name (<strong>Howdy, \u2026<\/strong>) at the top right of the screen and click <strong>Edit Profile<\/strong>. You can also click <strong>Profile<\/strong> in the Dashboard menu.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scroll to the <strong>Name<\/strong> section.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fill in <strong>First Name<\/strong> and <strong>Last Name<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under <strong>Display name publicly as<\/strong>, choose the version of your name you want shown on your posts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scroll to the bottom and click <strong>Update Profile<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"512\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 768 \/ 512;\" width=\"768\" controls src=\"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/02\/Updating-Profile-Name.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Edit Profile, fill in your name, choose a display name, Update Profile.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Good to know<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Your <strong>Username<\/strong> cannot be changed. To show a different name, type it into <strong>Nickname<\/strong>, then choose it under <strong>Display name publicly as<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your profile is shared across every ECU WordPress site you belong to, so changes show up on all of them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Your profile picture comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/gravatar.com\">Gravatar<\/a>, a free service linked to your email address.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related guides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/finding-your-way-around\/\">Finding your way around<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"\/support\/switching-editors-classic-vs-block\/\">Editors: Classic vs block<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set the name that appears on your posts. Steps Good to know Related guides<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-started"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}