How to Change an Author in WordPress

There are numerous reasons why you might need to change an author in WordPress. The first is that the author is no longer with your organization and you wish to reassign the content that they wrote to another content creator for your site.

Another reason might be that the person who created the content is the not the same person who uploaded it. You want to assign the correct person with the credit for the content.

Or you might want to assign your content based on a category to different authors for a higher level of authority for each author within certain topics.

Technically speaking it is really easy to make the changes. If an author has left your business and you’re looking to do it in bulk, just removing the user from your website is a great way to do this. It is quick, simple and when the author has been moved, all their content will be shifted to the next author.

Changing the author when you don’t want to do this is just as simple. You can do this manually one blog post at a time.

To do this all you need to do is to log into your WordPress website and then you can click on the ‘Posts’ tab. Then you can use the filter section at the top of the page to find the posts from the author that you wish to re-assign posts from.

Find the posts that you wish to re-assign. After all, you might want to keep some posts with the original author if they deserve the credit for the work.

From this section, you can then click on the ‘Quick Edit’ to reassign all the posts that you want. Within the ‘Quick Edit’ options there is an Author box that you can click on the dropdown menu to click on the author that you wish to credit with the article.

When you are done you can click on the ‘Save’ option.

There are lots of ways that you can improve how authors are displayed on your website. For instance, you can use plugins to add Author boxes that can give more information about your authors and create links between authors, posts and social media profiles.

One of the best Author plugins is the Ultimate Author Box plugin.