# 'your username must be different than your nickname'

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/your-username-must-be-different-than-your-nickname/94136>\
**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [August 7, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/your-username-must-be-different-than-your-nickname/94136 "2018-08-07T18:26:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andy02](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/andy02/32/119498_2.png) [@Andy02](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andy02)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/your-username-must-be-different-than-your-nickname/94136/1 "2018-08-07T18:26:04Z")

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We set up the sync and it seems to be working fine, except a bug where it sets the username and nickname as similar in Wordpress, and that makes the username invalid in Wordpress.

It works, but if you try to change anything for example a users role, you get the error message and the change doesn’t go through

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/3/83e61ea25996e9298a75e1a4bc74cd2ec6402778.png)

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