How To Change The Author Name In WordPress Post
Ravi Chahar
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You hire a ghost writer or want to show another author who has written the article. In such situation, you can change the author name in WordPress post.
Sometimes, your guest blogger may not turn out to be as faithful as you thought and to get rid of that person, you can replace the author name with yours.
In this post, you will find a perfect solution with no extra plugin or anything. Only the use of your WordPress admin panel is included.
You can easily change the author name in WordPress posts. You can do that for a single post or the multiple posts.
What Should You Know Before Changing The Author Name
Before you jump to the conclusion, you should know where to find all the users and who can modify it.
You should know about setting the users’ role and only the administrator can alter them. There are the different type of users depending on their roles provided by the administrator.
To see the list of all the authors along with the number of posts published by them can be seen by navigating to Users>>All Users.
A new page will open and you will see all the current users of your website.
A list will be showing along with all the details including their roles, total posts, name, and email address. You will see an administrator for your name.
Changing The Author Name For A Single Post
Go to Posts>>All Posts and open the post you want to edit.
At the top of the WordPress post editor page, you can see an option to enable “Screen optionsâ€. Click on that link and a drop-down menu will appear.
You will see many checkboxes. Click on the checkbox showing beside “Authorâ€.
Scroll down till the end of the post and you will see a new option which was not present before. It will consist all the names of the authors you have seen before.