How to Change the Author in WordPress (5 Ways)

There are times when it makes sense to change the author in WordPress. You might hire ghostwriters to create blog posts or run a content hub with lots of writers. Alternatively, you might want to hide the author from posts to make your site more cohesive. But you might not know how to do this.

Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to change the author in WordPress.

What to do before you change the author in WordPress

Obviously, if you want to change the author in WordPress to reflect your own name, you can go right ahead and do this. But if you want to show a different user as the author, your first job is to make sure that the user exists on the website.

To check this information, navigate to Users > All Users in your dashboard. If you’re logged into the administrator account, you can view and edit all users here. If you don’t see the user, click on Add New.

Then, enter the user details and use the Role dropdown

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