Through the tutorial shared below, you will be taken through how to change the author for various individual posts, in Classic Editor, WordPress Gutenberg, Block Editor and a few others.
1. How to Change Author in WordPress (Block Editor)
Before attempting the first step in this section, you will need to add a new WordPress account and assign the user the role and permissions of author. If you are using the WordPress Block Editor, then you can change this author through the Edit Post menu by following these steps:
- In your dashboard, go to Posts → All Posts
- Tap the post you want to change the author of and select Edit
- Click the gear icon on the top right of the post editor screen
- From the sidebar, go to Posts → Status and Visibility. In other versions of WordPress, you'll find it in the Documents section
- Find the author and select the new username from the drop-down list
- Click Update to save your changes
Besides changing the author, you can also hide it using the WP Meta Date Remover plugin. To do this, simply activate the plugin to hide post metadata, including author, date, and category.
2. How to Change Author in WordPress (Classic Editor)
The steps to change your WordPress author using the Classic Editor are similar to those above. However, you'll need to enable the Author configuration panel first:
- Open Post → All Posts
- Find the post you want to change, then click Edit
- In the editor, click the Screen Options menu to expand
- Make sure the author option is selected
- Find the author panel, usually located on the right side or below the Edit Post area.
- Click the drop-down menu and select the new author name from the list.
- Select the Publish tab and click Update
3. How to Change Author in WordPress with Quick Edit
This WordPress feature allows you to change the author of a post directly without opening the editor. This way of changing the author is perfect if you want to change many posts one by one.
Additionally, this feature is available in the Block and Classic Editor with the same functionality. Here are the steps to change the author of a WordPress post using the Quick Edit feature:
- Open Post → All Posts
- Move the cursor to the post you want to edit and select Quick Edit
- Select the new author name from the drop-down menu
- Select Publish to apply the changes
4. How to Change Author in WordPress Gutenberg Editor
For those of you who have used WordPress version 5.0 and above, you probably have Gutenberg as your default editor. The Gutenberg WordPress editor is a fairly easy-to-use version of the editor for beginners.
This is because in the Gutenberg editor you can use blocks to edit. So, how to change the author in the Gutenberg WordPress editor is also a little different from the old type of editor (classic editor). Here are the steps to change the author of an article using the Gutenberg editor:
- On the WP Admin page, click on the Post menu > select one of the articles that you want to change the author name to
- On the Gutenberg editor page, click the Settings icon in the top right corner
- In the Author section, click the drop down to change the author name
- If so, click the Update button to update your desired author name.
- Done! You've successfully changed the editor name in the WordPress Gutenberg editor
If you use the Gutenberg editor, then you can also learn how to create a homepage with Gutenberg so that you can add this author renaming feature later.
5. How to Change Author on WordPress for One Post
It's easy to change the author of a post in WordPress. Especially if you only want to change the author for one post. Here's how it's done.
- First, you need to login to your WordPress Dashboard
- Go to the All Posts page. On this page, find and select the post you want to change, then click Edit.
- On the new Edit Post page that opens, click the Screen Options option on the top right, then check Author
- Now scroll down until you find the Author menu
- You only need to change the author you want
- After changing the author name, don't forget to click the Update button to save the changes you have made
6. How to Change Author on WordPress in Bulk
Changing authors one by one can be time-consuming especially if you have a lot of posts to edit. Luckily, you can change multiple WordPress post authors at once.
The Bulk Actions feature in WordPress allows you to change the settings of multiple posts at once, including changing the author. Here's how to change author in wordpress for multiple names in bulk
- Open Post → All Posts
- You can display more posts by clicking the Screen Options menu and increasing the number of items per page.
- By default, WordPress displays 20 posts on a single page
- Select the post you want to change the author of by clicking the checkmark next to the title. Alternatively, check the Title option in the first row to select all posts
- Click Bulk Actions. From the drop-down menu, select Edit → Application
- The Bulk Edit options window will appear. Click the author drop-down menu and select a new author.
- Click Update to confirm the changes
This feature only allows you to assign one new author at a time. To select more than one author for another post, you can repeat the previous steps.
7. How to Change Author on WordPress with the Same User
You can also change the author of multiple posts associated with the same user. However, this requires you to rename the display generator, instead of specifying another existing user.
Before doing so, make sure you have the user role as administrator. Then, follow these steps to change the author display name
- Open Users → All Users
- Tap the user and select Edit
- Find the Name section. Change the author name in the specified field.
- Expand display name publicly as and select a new name
- Click Update user
Hopefully, this article has helped you understand how to change author on wordpress. If you still have questions, don't hesitate to ask them in the comments below this article! Good luck and good luck!