# Fewer Required Characters for WPAdmin Usernames
**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/fewer-required-characters-for-wpadmin-usernames/412
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [February 19, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/fewer-required-characters-for-wpadmin-usernames/412 "2021-02-19T23:58:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Zac\_Pollett](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Zac_Pollett)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/fewer-required-characters-for-wpadmin-usernames/412/1 "2021-02-19T23:58:52Z")
Submitting on behalf of a user.
WordPress admin usernames in DevKinsta are required to use at least 5 characters. However, validation for 4 characters exists: [WordPress/ms-functions.php at b59c0f307b131efe7bdf4b0670462019519205fb · WordPress/WordPress · GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/b59c0f307b131efe7bdf4b0670462019519205fb/wp-includes/ms-functions.php#L513)
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### Author:  [@Lolly](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Lolly)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2021, 10:10am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/fewer-required-characters-for-wpadmin-usernames/412/2 "2021-02-20T10:10:14Z")
Exact.
You can only use 3 characters without any problems but not with kinsta.
So its a feature request? I dont think so 😛
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### Author:  [@michael](https://community.kinsta.com/u/michael)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/fewer-required-characters-for-wpadmin-usernames/412/3 "2021-02-22T16:02:36Z")
Welcome @Zac_Pollett . Thanks for the feature request!
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### Author:  [@wkoehn](https://community.kinsta.com/u/wkoehn)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2021, 3:58am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/fewer-required-characters-for-wpadmin-usernames/412/4 "2021-05-26T03:58:59Z")
+100! I usually use test/test on all my local-only wp installs. I’d like to expand this to fewer required characters for usernames AND passwords.