How to Change the Author of Post in WordPress

How to Change the Author of Post in WordPress: Hello Friends, WordPress is the best content management software to create multiple-author blog. How many people can manage a single WordPress blog from around the world? If you also run a multi-author blog, be sure to read this post because you will know how to change the author of Post in WordPress?

Why do you need to change the post author in WordPress?

There are many reasons for this. Many times a member of your team writes a post, so for better information about readers, it would be better for a better user-experience to have the name of his real author under that post. Similarly, when you accept guest posts or paid posts on your blog, you still need to change the author of your post.

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Before you change the author ....

You need to take care of two or three things before changing the author. First of all, any writer whose name you want to put in the post should be on your WordPress blog and also with the rights of Author, Editor, or admin etc. Only then will you be able to add that author's name to any wordpress post. "How to Change the Author of Post in WordPress"

Step by Step Guide to Change the Author of any Post

1. First of all, if you want to change the author, open that post.
2. After that click on the Screen Option drop down at the top of the Wordpress Post Editor and make sure the check mark is next to "Author".
3. Now scroll down your post and you will see drop down to change the author just like a screenshot below.
4. This Drop Down will contain all the authors and editors registered on your WordPress blog. Whatever author you want to add and then publish or update the post.

There is another way to change the author too. In this you will not even need to open the post. Simply go to WordPress's Dashboard and then go to Posts> All Posts. Below the list of every single post here, the link to Quick Edit will be given, click on it. How to Change the Author of Post in WordPress

After this you will drop down to change author in the same way. Similarly, you can also change author here and then click on the button of simply update.

How to change the author of Multiple Posts 

If you open a word in the WordPress editor in one post, then you will be doing a lot of time to change the author, it will definitely take you a lot of time. Therefore, there is also an asana method of how to change the author of Multiple Posts simultaneously.

Its steps:

First of all open All Posts. Select those posts that you want to change. Now select "Edit" in the "Bulk Selection" above. After that as shown in the screenshot shown below, the author will drop down to change, from which you can easily change the author of all selected posts. Finally click on Update button. 

"How to Change the Author of Post in WordPress"

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