Thank you for your prompt responses!

Have a great day!!

Considering his is a "contributor" and not an "author" his name will not show up. Is that correct?

I appreciate any further help.

I know there is an author widget you can add to your sidebar & blog but I have my own idea for that. For the time being, I just want to attach his name to the post he wrote so everybody knows it was his, not mine. As of right now I have yet to publish his post.

Thanks in advance!

The byline has not returned to my theme. But
thank you Sacred Path for a better work-around
option. I think I will do this. I HATED losing my
categories but knew of no other way to approach
it.

What's the logic for the theme function changes?
That's actually not the only change that occurred
to the Greyzed theme at that point in time, and
none of them were good. It looks like the thrust
here travelled along the avenue of anonymity,
privacy, whatever... my search engine queries,
share queries, etc. all got dumbed-down so I
can't track any of them back to their source as I
could do before the recent changes.

Up 'til now, "Referrers > Search Engines" listed all
of them separately with links so I could track each
black to their source. Now there's just a hit count
grouped under Google, Bing, etc. If there are links
they just come back to Google or Bing or whatever.

Same thing with Shares -- before this occurred I
could backtrack an email share to an actual email
handle and address-- a specific account. No longer.
When I click on those links now, they send me to
my own blog.

Bad changes all these. I feel like I lost some pow-
erful tools in the process. With the byline thing,
it's like... "Why"? Why fix it if it's not broke? But it
is now. I lost my post attribution and fifty links out
on the web with my name on them. It was helping
to get my name out and incorporated into the
SERPS, and that is a big thing to me as I'm actual-
ly attempting to brand it. It also helps to retain at-
tribution on wholesale copy and paste jobs of my
articles, which I have been coming across more
frequently with the passage of time. It was actually
stumbling over one of these with no attribution
whatsoever that led to my discovering I no longer
had any on my own site either -- it was gone...

So I'm just wondering who this benefited from this
and why it was done, assuming everything happens
for a reason. Does it save server space and help to
cut costs?

Thanks....

So it's very unfortunate that Matt's aversion to options means that people can't choose for themselves whether they want author names to be displayed. Just as there are individuals who want to keep their name on their posts, I'm sure there are some multi-author blogs out there using the above-mentioned workaround who'll groan at the prospect of having to go back and edit all the bylines out of their archives.

If you can give users the choice of having snow on their blogs or ticking a mysterious box for 'Fun mode' , then your databases are not yet in such a fragile state that they cannot accommodate a couple of extra fields for basic functions like 'author name display' or 'disable carousel-style galleries'. Priorities, people, please.

yes this was not one of their better ideas - sort of a turkey I think.

The new user can be you - you do need to use a different email address for the second user.

Or if you have a friend that has a WordPress.COM blog you could add them as a "Contributor" to your blog and have them make one post (or you as the Admin can make the Post for them and change the Author to them - page down on the Edit Post page) - a Contributor can write but all of their stuff needs to be approved before they are published so you are still in command of what they can put on your blog.

Real dumb idea to turn off the ID or make us do some jerk of a workaround - the new gallery is a piece of junk also - really made things much less friendly and I hate it -

John