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Changing the Author to Another User in Block Editor
- Click “Posts” and then “All Posts”
- Choose the post you want to change the author of and click “Edit”
- Click “Document” in the right sidebar.
- Find “Author” under “Status and Visibility”
- Open the dropdown menu to change the author.
- Click “Update” to confirm the change.
Simply head over to the Settings » Edit Author Slug page. Here you will see an option to change the author base and even choose different author base for users with different user roles. Once you are finished, click on the save changes button to store your settings.
Now go to Posts » All Posts page and click on the screen options menu at the top. Enter 999 for number of items to display. This will allow you to quickly edit and change author name for a large number of posts. You need to select all posts using the checkbox and then select edit under the bulk actions drop down menu.
What is an author slug?
The Author Slug is the last part of the Author URL, by default it’s the URL friendly version of the username (login name), also known as nicename. My Author URL on this site is https://letswp.io/author/attila/ and my Author Slug, as you already figured it out, is attila .
How can I change the author of a post?
You need to check the box next to ‘Author’ option. After that, you need to scroll down on the post edit screen just below the post editor. You will see the Author box there. Simply click on the drop down menu and select a different author. Don’t forget to click on the Save Draft or Update button to save your changes.
To bulk update authors, click on the Posts menu from your WordPress admin bar. This will list all the posts on your WordPress site. By default, WordPress shows 20 posts per page. If you want to display more posts, then you need to click on the Screen Options and change the number of posts you want to display.
WordPress allows you to add a brief author bio, but to add social media links you’ll need to use a WordPress author bio plugin. Aside from that, you’ll also want to improve your Author archive pages where WordPress displays a list of posts written by that author. To optimize author pages for SEO, we recommend using All in One SEO.
In other words, there’s no way to create a new author for a post from either of the content editors. So, let’s say you’re bringing in a new Contributor or Author, and you wish to more accurately attribute posts they’ve written that were published under the name of an Editor or Administrator.