{"id":5367,"date":"2012-08-08T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/?p=5367"},"modified":"2012-11-19T09:02:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T09:02:23","slug":"how-to-create-a-good-username","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/how-to-create-a-good-username\/affordablewebsitestips\/tutorials\/how-to-blog\/internet-tips","title":{"rendered":"How To Create A Good Username"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial I will show you how to create a good username. I'll assume the username will be public and will have to be unique. Below are some awesome strategies on how to create the best username possible.<\/p>\n<h3>How to create a good username techniques<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>The shorter the username the better. Check the size limits the website specifies for the username and make it as short as possible(4-10 characters).<\/li>\n<li>Think of a word people can remember. A username that's memorable can be more easily spread via word of mouth.<\/li>\n<li>Ideally a username should be easy to&nbsp;pronounce. If you have to say 'z as in zebra' or 'n as in Nancy', there's an increased chance that people will&nbsp;misinterpret&nbsp;the username. Don't fret over this since it's impossible to do&nbsp;sometimes.<\/li>\n<li>If the username you want is taken, you can resort to replacing one of the letters with a number (tooslick - 2slick)(numberone - number1).<\/li>\n<li>Add one of these common slang word-extensions&nbsp;onto your username to make it more unique.\n<p><strong>uber<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>zor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ify<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>dom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>tron<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>izzle&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ville<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Worse case&nbsp;scenario, you can always message a user who has your preferred username and try to purchase it from them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It's not always easy to find a good username. I have to think of a good username every day since I run a web hosting company and these methods help me the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this tutorial I will show you how to create a good username. I&#8217;ll assume the username will be public and will have to be unique. Below are some awesome strategies on how to create the best username possible. How to create a good username techniques The shorter the username the better. Check the size [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[503],"class_list":["post-5367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-tips","tag-username"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5367"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7608,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions\/7608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}