WordPress.com Forums » Topic: How to I change author name on existing posts? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-i-change-author-name-on-existing-posts WordPress.com Forums » Topic: How to I change author name on existing posts? en Thu, 23 May 2013 11:28:24 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 juliefox on "How to I change author name on existing posts?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-i-change-author-name-on-existing-posts#post-1072917 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:55:33 +0000 juliefox 1072917@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I recently transferred my blog from WP.org to .com. When it was self-hosted, I had multiple authors contributing to the site and I thought that they had all been transferred correctly when I imported the content.

Unfortunately, this is not the case. I have invited the users to become authors on WP.com but I have one big problem that I can't fix.

All their content has been attributed to me! This was not the intention of the move and I want to reassign the posts to their original authors but I can't find a way of doing that.

I read on a forum post that changing the theme may hide the author so that at least posts wouldn't display my author bio on articles I didn't write but:
1. I like the feature and it works well for correctly attributed posts as a link back to the author's main blog
2. I can't find a suitable theme that doesn't show author details.

I need to be able to change the author name, not hide mine, so is there a way of doing this short of asking the authors to delete and repost (which will probably put them off using the site altogether)?

Thanks,

Julie

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