{"id":7,"date":"2016-12-01T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2016-12-12T22:43:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:43:58","slug":"how-to-change-the-author-of-a-wordpress-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/how-to-change-the-author-of-a-wordpress-post\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change the Author of a WordPress Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this short guide we will find out how to change the author of a WordPress post from one use to another.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the post has been saved by one user and you wish to change the author of that post to another user on the WordPress site.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1) Find the post in question and edit it<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/edit-wordpress-post-author-1.jpg?resize=300%2C62&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"edit-wordpress-post-author-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/edit-wordpress-post-author-1.jpg?resize=300%2C62&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/edit-wordpress-post-author-1.jpg?w=333&amp;ssl=1 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2) Scroll down the post editor page and look for the Author section. If you see it, then change the Author and save the Daft or Update the post<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/edit-wordpress-post-author-2.jpg?resize=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"edit-wordpress-post-author-2\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/edit-wordpress-post-author-2.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/edit-wordpress-post-author-2.jpg?w=538&amp;ssl=1 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>If you do not see the author displayed then it probably needs enabled on the Screen Options bar at the top of the page<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4)Look for the Screen Options tab to the top right of the page an click it<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/edit-wordpress-post-author-3.jpg?resize=584%2C90&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"edit-wordpress-post-author-3\" width=\"584\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/edit-wordpress-post-author-3.jpg?resize=300%2C46&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/edit-wordpress-post-author-3.jpg?resize=768%2C118&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/edit-wordpress-post-author-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C157&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/edit-wordpress-post-author-3.jpg?resize=1200%2C185&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/edit-wordpress-post-author-3.jpg?w=1645&amp;ssl=1 1645w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5) Then enable Author<\/p>\n<p>6) After that you can go back to step 2 to change the Author then save the Post<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can also see this explained as a video:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kYrJhq14Pig?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this short guide we will find out how to change the author of a WordPress post from one use to another. Assuming the post has been saved by one user and you wish to change the author of that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/how-to-change-the-author-of-a-wordpress-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[11,9],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-how-to","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aov4-7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daftlogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}