Add custom author names

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  busthprophet · Member · Sep 5, 2016 at 2:51 pm

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  Hello, our blog will have multiple contributors and I am wanting to manually enter the author’s names on blog posts rather than using the default author name (our display name is “the prophet”). Can someone show me how to do this?

  I am a bit slow when it comes to CSS so step-by-step instructions would be much appreciated :)

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 6, 2016 at 7:54 pm

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  Hi, go to Customize > CSS, delete all the informational text in that window, and paste in the following custom CSS to remove the author name from the meta data below the post titles. Unfortunately due to the way the HTML and CSS are structured, I cannot remove the ” / ” from before the date.

  .author {
      display: none;
  }

  To add your own author byline, simply add that at the top of each post in the post editor above your post content.

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  busthprophet · Member · Sep 7, 2016 at 1:12 am

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  Thanks that’s very helpful! The / does look a bit weird now though. Is there a way to remove the / + date entirely? Or, is there a way to change the author from our username “busthprophet” to something simpler like “admin” or “the prophet” without changing our username?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 7, 2016 at 8:58 pm

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  You can set the display name that will appear as “author” and on any comments you make by going into your admin dashboard and to Users > My Profile and under “Display name publicly as” type in the name you wish to show and then save. Your username does not change, it just let’s you set what the public sees as an author name in posts and comments.