SX User Name Security
Active Installs
900+
Last Updated
April 24, 2025
First Released
March 8, 2013
Download History (Last one month)
WordPress show your WordPress login and ID in several places. It’s time to fix this !
- WordPress automaticaly uses “User login” to fill in the “User Display Name”.
- WordPress also allows everyone to use the same value for Nickname, Display Name and Login.
- The body_class function also shows to everyone your User ID and Login on author pages.
A hacker can easily see then use your “NickName” or “Display Name” to find your real login. Once activated, SX User Name Security will prevent WordPress from showing those informations, and will warn you if you need to fix old users.
Features
Body_class function:
- Removes User ID from body_class function (front-end users pages)
- Removes User Nicename from body_class function (front-end users pages)
Current User informations:
- The plugin changes “Display Name” and “Nickname” to a random value (like ‘Ticibe T. Aduvoguripe’, ‘Lagubo N. Agigerovibe’ or ‘Datela N. Orejadavino’) if they are identiqual to user login
- If not, it changes “Display Name” to “Nickname” or “Nickname” to “Display Name” if one of them is identiqual to user login
New Registration:
- Display Name and Nickname are changed to random value during user registration.
- Nicename is also changed (it’s used to generate the user permalink on the front-end). For previous user, a notice has been added to use another plugin to safely change old nicenames.
Other information:
All functions are translated into french and english.
You can find me here on SeoMix, and here is the official french post about this plugin https://www.seomix.fr/user-name-security/
Find here our other plugins:
Upload and activate the plugin.
A notice and a button will be displayed to handle all users in order to hide their logins. Then, SX User Name Security will prevent WordPress from ever showing login and ID informations.
Screenshot Gallery
Yes : just visit the admin user page to see if you have to modify some of your users.
It’s also better to use SF Author URL Control (https://wordpress.org/plugins/sf-author-url-control/) combined with this plugin to also change current author permalinks (in order to hide login information).
Changelog
2024/01/06 – v.2.4
- Major performance improvements, especially on websites with many users
- Minor Coding standards fixes
2020/09/21 – v.2.3.2
- Required version bumped to 4.6
- Updated plugin text domain
2017/11 – v.2.3.1
- Tested up to WordPress 4.9
- Improving warning information on admin pages
- Code cleaning
2014/09/30
- Major fix for the “fix username” button : it will no longer generate 404 error pages (but people will still be able to guess your real login with your author URL).
- Add a column in the admin user list showing “Display Name” for every user.
- Add a better explanation about the “Fix Username” button.
2014/06/15
- Minor fix for the admin profil URL link.
2014/04/01
- Add a button (JS only) to handle all users created before the plugin installation.
- Code improvements
2014/03/26
- Code improvement
- Bug fixes (in some cases, user “Display Name” and “Login” were not modified)
- Now an administrator can also trigger every function by saving a user (you don’t have to wait every user to log-in)
- New alerts (admin notices)
2013/03/08
- first release
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