Make second account an author?

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  kimberleane · Member · Jun 1, 2015 at 10:37 pm

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  Okay, so I made a WP for my upcoming road trip with my daughter, then I decided to make another one for my Photo Booth company. The problem I’m having is that my photobooth WP doesn’t seem to be a User so I can’t make it an author/admin on its posts. It has my road trip username as the author on my Photo Booth page. How do I fix this? I really don’t want to confuse clients by having a different author on that WP account. Example: twogirlsandatinycar is my original account name and wearethefunbooth is my second WP account. Help, please!

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 2, 2015 at 2:28 am

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  Okay, so I made a WP for my upcoming road trip with my daughter, then I decided to make another one for my Photo Booth company.

  What’s a WP?

  The problem I’m having is that my photobooth WP doesn’t seem to be a User so I can’t make it an author/admin on its posts.

  What’s a WP, and can it be made a User?

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  kimberleane · Member · Jun 2, 2015 at 4:48 am

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  WP = WordPress, sorry.

  I just changed my author name to Kimber, so both sites are posted by my name instead of blog site names.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 2, 2015 at 5:18 am

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  The problem I’m having is that my photobooth WP doesn’t seem to be a User so I can’t make it an author/admin on its posts.

  I take it that you have two WP websites in the same account. Any website in a single account will have the same username, and the same principal author. The only way to have a different username/author on a second website is to have it in a separate account. Given that you’ve already created website B in account A (if I understand correctly) you’ll have to create account B and move website B to it as described in the Transferring a Site to Another WordPress.com Account support page.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 2, 2015 at 5:20 am

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  More simply, you can not have more than one author per account. Secondary authors on any website are users invited from other accounts.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jun 2, 2015 at 5:50 am

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  Just to clarify, you’ve only changed your display name/nickname.

  So when anyone clicks on your author name at wearethefunbooth.com/2015/05/31/hello-world/ your author name currently appears as twogirlsandatinycar

  So in order to separate the two, you will need to follow the instructions that @musicdoc1 gave.

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