# Change a user's name from the admin page?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-a-users-name-from-the-admin-page/59425
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [18. März 2017 um 16:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-a-users-name-from-the-admin-page/59425 "2017-03-18T16:52:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [18. März 2017 um 16:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-a-users-name-from-the-admin-page/59425/1 "2017-03-18T16:52:58Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Change Name Field as Admin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-name-field-as-admin/50619/2):
I’m training some new admins about how to manage our Discourse, and I’m getting the question “wait, why do we need to switch to the user’s side to edit a name?”
I don’t have a good answer, so I wonder.. could we please get an “Edit Name” button next under the Edit Username" one?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [18. März 2017 um 20:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-a-users-name-from-the-admin-page/59425/2 "2017-03-18T20:58:13Z")
Where does it end though? Why not an edit email from here as well?
At what point are we duplicating every bit of the user prefs edit?
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [18. März 2017 um 21:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-a-users-name-from-the-admin-page/59425/3 "2017-03-18T21:00:44Z")
I don’t see why an admin should have to go back and forth at all. It’s a major time-suck.
Especially when I have to fix an email address for them.. but that’s better described here:
> [@Allow admins to change email addresses easily](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-admins-to-change-email-addresses-easily/33753):
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> Current setup: Site is locked down for members to be invited or request access. We don’t want people changing their own email address, so the related email change site-setting is disabled. Of course, sometimes an admin must. ###Expectation: go to the user’s admin page, see the email, and edit it, potentially have that pending confirmation of the new email. sunny ###Actual visit the admin page click a button to see what it is. there’s no way to edit it Click Show Public Profile,…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [18. März 2017 um 21:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-a-users-name-from-the-admin-page/59425/4 "2017-03-18T21:18:24Z")
Oh @erlend_sh I believe you were looking for stuff that is not on our roadmap, not too hard, as pr requested material? This is one of them.
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### Author:  [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [18. März 2017 um 21:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-a-users-name-from-the-admin-page/59425/5 "2017-03-18T21:52:44Z")
What direction do you want to go with this? Button that links to user change name page? (I think it is a page) or opening a text field there in the admin page to alter the name?
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [18. März 2017 um 21:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-a-users-name-from-the-admin-page/59425/6 "2017-03-18T21:55:03Z")
If you’re asking me, I think the edit button just like the one on the Username be great.
So long as we don’t have leave the admin page. The fact that we have many Save buttons next to each field/attribute isn’t a problem to me.
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### Author:  [@nbianca](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nbianca)
#### Post date: [20. März 2017 um 15:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-a-users-name-from-the-admin-page/59425/7 "2017-03-20T15:21:04Z")
Hello,
[This PR](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4770) implements the change name button requested. It works like the “Edit title” button (does not redirect to a different page).
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### Author:  [@watchmanmonitor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/watchmanmonitor)
#### Post date: [5. April 2017 um 02:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-a-users-name-from-the-admin-page/59425/8 "2017-04-05T02:16:25Z")
Bianca was kind enough to update the PR after a merge commit emerged. I’m updating my how-to, could we get [this](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4770) reviewed again?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [5. April 2017 um 19:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-a-users-name-from-the-admin-page/59425/9 "2017-04-05T19:04:59Z")
It’s been merged:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/9065df76ade33f763ef9b7dc5d225f874433d4f4](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/9065df76ade33f763ef9b7dc5d225f874433d4f4)
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [7. April 2017 um 19:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-a-users-name-from-the-admin-page/59425/10 "2017-04-07T19:23:32Z")