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Hi everyone, welcome to Key2Blogging and in this video I will show you how you can change
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the author name in your WordPress website. So suppose you have a blog post and you want to change the author name for your WordPress
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website, then how you can do that? So watch the video till the end, you will be know how you can change the author name
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easily in WordPress. So by the way, if you found this video helpful, then make sure to hit the like button
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So first of all, you need to go to the users here and click on the profile here
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Now here scroll down and as you can see that the user name is set to admin, so you can't
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change user name here. So you can change this nickname. So let's change the author name here like this, and you can change the display name
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publicly as Abhishek like this. Now let's scroll down here and let's update this profile
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Now the author name is changed like this. And if you want to change the user name of your account, then you can also do that by
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following this video. So I have already covered how to change the user name in WordPress in this video
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So suppose you want to change the author name to something else, but you don't want to change
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the account here, then you can create a new author profile here
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So all I can do is just click on all user here. And as you can see that there is one user here
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So let's create a new author here. Now I can set a user name here so I can say it like Rohith and I can add an email address here
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Now I can add the first name as Rohith and I will add the website and last name here
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like that. And I can change the role to author. Now let's click on add new user
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So as you can see that the author is now added here. So if I want to assign the post in the name of Rohith, then what I can do is I will go
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to the post here and I will select the first here and I will click on quick edit and I
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can simply change the author to Rohith like this and I can update this post
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As you can see that this post is changed to Rohith. If I want to do the same, then I can do it by quick edit or I can click on this edit
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button here and here you will see this option author. So you can change the author from Abhishek to Rohith like this and you can update this
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Let's view this post here and as you can see that the author name is changed like this
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So you can do the same with all posts here and here as you can see that if I click on
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view button, it will show the author name here. So if you want to change the author, then you can simply click on quick edit, change
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the author like this and click on update. Now the author is changed in this blog post
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So I hope you have understand how to change the author name in WordPress easily
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So if you found this video helpful, then make sure to hit the like button and if you have
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any doubt regarding this, then you can ask me in the comment section. I will see you in the next video
