Stopping site from posting admin's name on articles.
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I am using fourteen Twenty to operate a magazine style publication. i use articles written by different people. When I post an article by someone else I don’t want the site to show my name at the top of the page, (next to the date and the “leave a comment” button) because it’s not my article. But forty twenty is doing this automatically. How do I stop it so it shows only the authors name, as I have put their name at the top of the articles?
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You can configure your authorship name on the People section of your WordPress.com site https://wordpress.com/people/edit and that should reflect across all the WordPress.com blog posts you create.
If you have your name mentioned there, your name will be shown on all blog posts you create on your WordPress.com site. You can change that to something else and it will be changed across all blog posts you had published.
I hope this helps. Feel free to get back if you have questions and I will be keen on helping you through it!
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For the theme you are using the features and link to the live demo site are here https://wordpress.com/theme/twentyfourteen
Please note the themes that automatically provide an author profile and gravatar following each published post https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/author-bio.
If the author profile does not appear on the live demo site for your theme then it is not a feature provided by that theme.
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Hi there, just adding to what our other volunteers have mentioned so far.
Some themes have “theme options” one of which is hiding the author name on posts. But it looks like something has changed in our Theme Showcase as I cannot link to the list of our current themes which support this feature. As such, I’ve tagged this thread for Staff assistance with this feature.
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Hi snowtravelsandwrites,
I don’t want the site to show my name at the top of the page, (next to the date and the “leave a comment” button) because it’s not my article.
Author name is determined by which account was used to create the post itself, regardless of whether the contents of the post was written by you. Certain themes offer the option to hide author information on all posts but Twenty Fourteen does not.
Twenty Seventeen and Twenty Sixteen both provide the option to hide the author name.
With Twenty Fourteen, the author name could be removed using custom CSS but this is only available with Premium and Business plans.
If the posts are written by other people specifically for your site (as a guest post), you may want to consider inviting them to your site using one of these user roles:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/
Come back to me if you have any questions.
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@justjennifer I wanted to pick up on one of your points:
But it looks like something has changed in our Theme Showcase as I cannot link to the list of our current themes which support this feature.
Recent themes created in the last year or so should support Content Options, which offers the option to hide author names. Our Themes page doesn’t provide the option to filter by this feature though, since it’s widely supported in newer themes.
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Hi @gemmacevans – thanks for the additional information for snowtravelsandwrites and the update regarding “Content Options.”
(In the end I used the “theme-options” tag link from the developer theme tags page, which landed me on the general Theme Showcase. Perhaps then that link needs removing or revising. :) )
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