How-To
Changing attribution for a post
Description
If you’d like to change which of the authors on your blog is given attribution for a post, this video will show you how
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WordPress.com (112), WordPress.org (248), 2.7 (60)
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Date
January 14, 2009
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attribution, authors, featured (94)
Categories
How To, Publishing, Users, Writing,
[...] on the homepage of this new service are currently limited to very short, simple tutorials such as changing the post author (attribution) and publishing posts at a later date. But if you drill-down through the website [...]
January 19, 2009 at 6:43 pm
An interesting plugin that could be used in addition would be one that automatically changes this after a certain period of time. Say you want a post assigned to one of several authors after posting as the admin.
January 20, 2009 at 12:38 am
I think it’d be a good idea if there was a bulk edit option to change the author of multiple posts. Unless, of course, it’s possible and I don’t know about it.
January 29, 2009 at 4:48 pm
oh.. i didn’t know about this. now i have an idea how to change the post author. thanks for this vid
yay!
December 17, 2009 at 5:24 pm
In the “Edit Post” area I’ve scrolled to the bottom of the page — as shown in the video — yet, when I go to the live blog I see no Author listings for any of our blogposts. Has anyone else run into this problem? I thought I might need to “Activate” authors somewhere else in the dashboard but if that’t the case I can’t locate the spot where that’s done (I have dragged the widget to the sidebar, and that listing-by-author is working). I’m looking for a headline first, author second, blogpost third set-up. If anyone can throw me a lifeline on this one I’d greatly appreciate it. Thanks…
December 18, 2009 at 2:58 am
Hello!
Some themes do not display the authors at all when showing a blog post. If you’re using self-hosted WordPress and are industrious, you can always alter the theme to do so. If you are using WordPress.com, you’ll need to either get by without or select another theme that does display the author information.
December 18, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Thanks Ryan. Well, that explains it… I thought I was doing everything right and I feel better about this knowing it wasn’t my apprpach. If it can’t be done, it can’t be done. Thanks for taking the time to post, I appreciate it.