the author profile that is showing is the default admin account. I do not wish to make this a public one, rather another user account. How do I change this to another user?
Hello joannaleng,
The most simple trick, in this case, would be to edit all of your posts which was published with your author account with another user created by you, like this -> https://www.screencast.com/t/mr6M4sUqfj0
Hope this helps!
Thanks for your understanding!
Hihi
This does not help as it is the admin account is shown on “my profile” and it appears o the homepage. There needs to be an option to change this or if will increase security list by having the admin account as the profile in “ my profile “
Hello joannaleng,
Unfortunately, another option does not exist in our theme, sorry!
Thanks.
Ownership of pages and posts is a part of WordPress, not the theme.
This is why best practices is to have a ‘superadmin’ account for building the site code; then a main admin who creates pages.
So ‘superadmin’ account is ‘admin’ (which should never be admin, and should be something like superjoeadmin.
The pages are then built/owned by another account like ‘joeadmin’ … who is not the superadmin.
You then ‘show’ the author box on the edit page for your ‘pages’ including home page, and then change the ‘author’ to the second level user, not the superadmin.
UPSHOT:
*site manaagement = superadminaccount
*page managemennt = adminaccount /editoraccount
Summary of Roles
Super Admin – somebody with access to the site network administration features and all other features. See the Create a Network article.
Administrator (slug: ‘administrator’) – somebody who has access to all the administration features within a single site.
Editor (slug: ‘editor’) – somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of other users.
Author (slug: ‘author’) – somebody who can publish and manage their own posts.
Contributor (slug: ‘contributor’) – somebody who can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them.
Subscriber (slug: ‘subscriber’) – somebody who can only manage their profile.
This is an old issue of the past decade with WordPress.
You need to go into the website theme to look into it. The issue now is with the theme. Taking the first account that you use to create the WordPress as the “my profile” account.
Kindly login to see that part. It has got nothing to do with the page or post owners. It’s a different thing all together.
