Hi, I’m one of the Editors at our publication and have been given the unenviable task of adding articles to our new Newspaper 6 based WordPress site.
The problem is that when I add each story, I am credited as the author and I get the ‘byline’ in the post, presumably because I am the person who created and submitted each post. However, I did not write them and I can see that we are going to be in serious trouble with our writers if I get the credit for their work.
Perhaps I’ve missed something but I can’t see a way to attribute posts to someone else who is not logged in and probably doesn’t even have an account on our site. I suppose I could use the Subtitle field to add the name but the theme still shows me as the author when the post is published.
Any ideas for how we can change this and credit the correct people?
Thanks, Katie
Hi
a great resource to learn WordPress basic functions is the “codex” (docs” on the WordPress.org website.
Basically when you post as yourself, you are the author.
However, you need to setup a “user” for each author on your site under the “users” section of the main WP admin panel.
Then when you create a post, you can choose that user/author from the authors selector on the post page (where you create the article/post).
See the codex on how to use the “post” panel in WP:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Posts
Setting authors is part of WP, and not the theme.
Hope that helped! 🙂
If you’re allowing “guest posts” — there are various plugins which allow this. This allows an “author” to be assigned without that person having an “account.” But have not used any of those to recommend. This would likely need customization for how to manage the author box bottom of each post.
