New Username with Pre-existing WP Blog

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  ericaontuesdays · Member · Aug 20, 2015 at 12:22 am

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  Hi There,

  My main blog is ericaontuesdays.wordpress.com. I created a bunch of blogs under this account username ‘ericaontuesdays’. One of these sub-blogs is ericalostandfound.wordpress.com. The issue I have is when I write a post, the author name is always ‘ericaontuesdays’ because that’s the main account I started with. What I want is to post as author alias ‘ericalostandfound’ instead of ‘ericaontuesdays’. Thus, I need to create an account of that name ‘ericalostandfound’ and then send an author request to that user name. However, the problem is that I can no longer create a username of that same name because I created the sub-blog already.

  1. Is there any solution to how I can create a username that’s the same WP blog name that’s been created under another account?

  2. How can I just hide the ‘Authors’ widget from a public post?

  Thanks,
  Erica << duh :)

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

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  sfarley85 · Member · Aug 20, 2015 at 4:42 am

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  Hi Ericaontuesdays (and lostandfound on other days :-)),

  1) Instead of creating a new user just invite you’re already existing one as a contributor. See more info here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/

  2) To hide the Author you can use a theme that hides it or if you have the Premium plan hide it with CSS:

  To just hide the author:

  .author {
       display: none;
  }

  To hide the “posted by” with the author:

  .entry-meta {
       display: none;
  }