Change Post Author in WordPress

Author name of a post :

After publishing a blog post on your WordPress blog, the default author name "admin" will be assigned to the blog post. You can see the post author name below the post title on your WordPress blog. However, you can change the author name of your WordPress blog post.

You can also change the author name of your existing blog posts. In this post, I will explain how to change the author name of your WordPress blog post.

How to Change Post Author Name in WordPress:

We can change the author of an existing blog post in WordPress easily. We can also change the author names of multiple posts at a time. Before changing the author name of a blog post, we need to enable the author name option on the blog posts by selecting the Author option from the Screen Options menu. Once enabled, we can proceed to change the author name.

Follow below steps to change the author name of a post on your WordPress blog:

Step 1 : Go to WordPress Dashboard

Step 2 : Click posts and click on Edit post

Step 3 : Click on Screen options and check Author box

Step 4 : Now you can see the Author module below your post editor.

Step 5 : Click on the down arrow mark on the Author drop-down menu. Then, choose a name and click on the Update button to save the changes.

That's it. Go and check the author name of your blog post. Like this, you can change the author name of any specific blog post in your WordPress. You can also change the author for multiple posts at a time.

How To change Author for multiple posts on your WordPress blog.

Step 1 : Click on Posts

Step 2 : Select multiple posts

Step 3 : Click on Edit on bulk actions and click on Apply.

Step 4 : Click on Author drop and down menu and choose any name

Step 5 : Click on Update.