Different author names for different accounts

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  maherlewis · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 7:29 pm

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  Hi,
  I have 2 blogs under the same account. For the first blog, I want the author to be “maherlewis” and for another blog, I want the author to be “maylewis”. how do I do that.

  Changing, the display public name affects both the blogs.

  Thanks!

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  sambauers · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 7:29 pm

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  You did not specify a blog address or reason for posting when you created this topic.

  This support forum is for WordPress.com hosted blogs only. If you have a self-hosted WordPress blog you need to seek help at the WordPress.org forums, not here.

  If you don’t understand the difference, you may find this information helpful.

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  maherlewis · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 7:30 pm

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  The blog address is maherlewis.wordpress.com

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  maherlewis · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 7:52 pm

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  Here’s the reply that I got from support… in case someone else wants to try the same thing
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  Public display names are specific to accounts, not blogs. So – to have different display names, you would need to register another account and transfer one of those blogs to that new account. You could then modify the public display name in that account.
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  I think having a feature where public display names are specific to blogs would be useful, as I could have one blog for my business and the other, personal and have separate “public names” names for them, that way I don’t have to keep logging in and out of the accounts. But I guess I must be the only one who would want such a feature, else such a feature would have been there! :)

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  maherlewis · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 8:32 pm

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  I have a work around if anyone is interested –

  1. I opened another account and I sent an invitation to this new account.
  a. Logout from your current account
  b. Open a new account
  c. Change the display name to whatever you like by going to “User” -> “Profile”
  d. Log out from this account
  e. Login to your fist account and send an invitation to the account that you just opened. Here are the instructions to send invitation http://support.wordpress.com/adding-users/

  2. Now, open the post of the second blog, click on edit, scroll down to the bottom where you will see “Post Author”

  3. Select the author that you want.

  The advantage of this is that, now you can write posts using two different names without having to switch between accounts!
  :)