Change Author

Do you have a blog/website with a lot of contributing authors but you do not want to give them the rights to publish the articles themselves for whatever reason? In that case it would be nice when you are able to give them credit for what they wrote anyway. Since WordPress cannot override the author with a non-author by default, this plugin overrides the Author meta-box with a meta box that can select any user.

So whenever you want to place an article that was written by someone else, you just create a user with subscriber role (if he/she hasn’t already) and assign the article to that user!

Install via WordPress Admin

1. 01Go to Admin > Plugins > Add New
2. 02Either search for Change Author or upload the zip file and click “Install”
3. 03After installation, activate it

Install via FTP

1. 04First unzip the plugin file
2. 05Using FTP go to your server’s wp-content/plugins directory
3. 06Upload the unzipped plugin here
4. 07Once finished login into your WP Admin and go to Admin > Plugins
5. 08Look for Change Author and activate it