change author of a post
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Hi, I’ll try to explain my enquiry as clearly as I can.
I receive contributions to my blog, from people who find it hard to deal with emails, passwords, etc. I type and upload those articles, and obviously they all appear as me being the Author. It gets confusing about who actually wrote them, although I include the name of the contributor at the top of the article. You see what I mean? How can I change the Author for a post, from my name, to another person’s name? Thanks a lot.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Is there a way around creating an ‘Author’ or ‘Contributor’ identity for each Author or Contributor I need to manage? Keep in mind they don’t post the articles, I’m the one typing and posting them. Thanks.
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Hi Alfonso,
The only easy way to fix this would be to create a new author/contributor identity for each author/contributor on your site:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
You mentioned that the actual contributors have a difficult time with emails and passwords. You could work it out this way:
1. You setup individual accounts for each of them, but you manage the accounts.
2. When you need to publish a new post, you login under one of the author/contributor accounts and write the post so that the post is attributed to the correct author/contributor
The difficulty here is that each author/contributor account would need to have a different email address (you can’t use the same email for two accounts at WordPress.com). So, you would need to have an equal number of email addresses.
Outside of that option, I’m afraid there isn’t a way to specify a different author for a post you created under your user account.
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Hi J, thanks for your help. Following your advice and some from webchat help, I successfully created a new account/username, which now appears available at my main username blog.
The problem is, I have other blogs under that main username; while I see other Authors listed under my main username, I can’t ‘see’ them when I go to my other blogs, and I can’t change the Authors in blogs other than my main username.
Bit of a problem there. “The Inspiralist”, my main username and blog, has Alfonso Vonscheidt as Author; “Stories Warehouse” under ‘The Inspiralist’ sees only ‘Alfonso Vonscheidt’, as Author, it doesn’t see the other Authors I created.
Thanks for taking the time to think about this.
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Hi @theinspiralist,
The problem is, I have other blogs under that main username; while I see other Authors listed under my main username, I can’t ‘see’ them when I go to my other blogs, and I can’t change the Authors in blogs other than my main username.
Currently, on theinspiralist.wordpress.com, there are two users – theinspiralist and storiesguests. If you’re on your posts page here:
https://theinspiralist.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=post
Hover over a post and click “Quick Edit” as shown here:
There should be a field where you can change the author as shown here:
If you change the author on that post, you should see that change reflected on the published view. Is that not working for you?
Going forward, the easiest method when creating new posts would be to login under that new account if the post is coming from a guest. Alternatively, you could create the post under your theinspiralist account and change the author as specified above.
Please let me know if I’m misunderstanding in any way!
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