changing author name

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  thecrescentmag · Member · Oct 8, 2017 at 9:49 pm

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  I’m running an online magazine that has 20+ authors. I don’t want to make them all editors, I just want to change the byline to have their name instead of mine (the admin). How can I do this?

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

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  timethief · Member · Oct 8, 2017 at 9:58 pm

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  You have to add them (each one ) as official users of the site with the role of Author.

  See:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#author
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site

  Unless or until you make these people official authors on the site there will be no author designation provided.

  You cannot provide username accounts and logins to others here at wordpress.com. Here your official users have to register their own wordpress.com accounts and passwords.

  If you read this: Author – can write, upload photos to, edit, and publish their own posts. from https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/ and it suits you please read on.

  You can have either a public or a private WordPress.COM hosted blog and there is no limitation on the total number of contributors to any blog. If you’d like to invite others to publish posts or help approve comments on your blog, you can invite them to be a Contributor, Editor, or Author. Contributors cannot upload images. If you want users to receive updates each time you publish new content you can invite them to be a follower/viewer.

  To change blog visibility to Private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3. See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings

  Then see:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-users-to-your-site
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#adding-viewers-to-a-private-site

  The invitees will have to register a WordPress.COM username account which requires an email address only, but does not need to register a blog. That requirement is because the software has to be able to differentiate between hackers and official users and allow access only to those with username accounts and official roles on the blog.

  Username accounts are required but registering blogs under them is not required.

  If the person being invited to contribute to your blog does not already have one, he or she will have to register a WordPress.COM username account. Note that he or she does not need to register a blog. There is a just a username please option. The invitees who lack username accounts select the “username only” option here: https://signup.wordpress.com/signup/?user=1

  NOTE that as you have an account you would have to log out and clear your browser cache https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-your-browser-cache and cookies https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/#clearing-wordpress-com-cookies to witness the process as the invitees without accounts would experience it.

  Upon receipt of the invitation the invitee will need to click the “Accept Invitation” button in the invitation email. If the invitee is logged into their WordPress.com username account, he or she will be taken directly to your blog. If not, he or she will be taken to the log-in screen, where he or she can either log in, or can register a new WordPress.COM user account.

  Note that invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.

  Note that invitees who do create a new WordPress.com account at that point will still need to return to the invitation email and click the “Accept Invitation” button after doing so.

  Lastly, there is a built-in spammer prevention so send out only 10 invitations at one point in time and then wait and manage those before sending out 10 more.

  See here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/ and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
  See also: Build a Membership Website Tutorial
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/build-a-membership-website-tutorial/

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  timethief · Member · Oct 8, 2017 at 9:59 pm

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  Oops! I apologize for the unintentional repetition above.

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  gemmacevans · Member · Oct 9, 2017 at 8:17 am

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  Hi thecrescentmag,

  Your Business plan includes email and Live Chat support. Please contact us from this page and we’ll be happy to look into this for you:

  https://wordpress.com/help/contact/

  Thanks!