Edit your admin profile and change your nick to the name of your choice ;)

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Thank you very much. I didn't know changing that was an option. However, just since the sample blogs are perhaps good for me to keep for reference purposes- if I choose to start a new blog rather than just edit the sample blogs do I make that edit in the sample blogs first and then do on to create the new blog?

You should just need to make that change in your admins profile?

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The nick is not what is appearing in the footer which I want to change. It is the entry in the login spot and that appears in more than 1 place in the options...can I just change the login name?

nick is default- Admin but that does not display on a blog page.

In the "Identity shown" dropdown you selected the option for 'nickname' right? BTW when you first add a nickname and select identity shown at the same time it'll offer "admin <<Nickname>>" as the first dropdown item. In fact I think it defaults to that so changing the login won't do the trick - you would have to actually change the nickname field.

I just did it on a test installation and it worked without issue. I did a forced page reload to avoid cache thingies but maybe I didn't need to?

Thanks very much. It worked. But, I have gone forward to attempt more and am hitting stumbling blocks.

I'll see if the online manual helps. That is, if I can find it again.

And, I am a friend of Bill W's. Good suggestion you have made. :)