Removing author name from a Wordpress Post

What is Wordpress ?

WordPress is an open source website development platform which is used to create high quality websites, blogs. It is quite simple and enables even those who are not tech-savvy to start their own website or blog. In WordPress, articles cannot be published without the author name by default.

If you really want to remove author name from a post, read on...

If you want to remove the author name, it can be done in a following ways.

Option 1: Use plugin for removing author name from WordPress post

• The simple way to remove the author name is by using a plugin.

• It is a non-technical way of solving the problem but please note that it may not be compatible with all the themes.

• WordPress has thousands of plugins, you need to select the plugin “Show - Hide author” plugin.

• Install the plugin and then activate it.
  

• After activation, you need to configure the plugin by visiting the page Plugins -> show/hide author.

• By default, the plugin hides author name automatically from all types of posts. You can however configure it to only hide posts from selected web post types.

• You can also include custom webpages to hide the author.

Option 2: Delete the code related to author name manually from WordPress post

• In this method, you have to edit WordPress theme files by seeing the code.
• Please ensure you back up all your themes before editing, so that you can go back to the original version if you made any error.
• You need to browse through the code and locate the part which is used for displaying author name.
• It is mostly probably located in index.php, archive.php, content.php, orsingle.php files.
• If you are not able to find it out in those locations, then the author name may be present in the template-tag.php file or functions.php file.
• You have to remove the code which is responsible for outputting the author file.
• Save the changes you have made to the code and upload the same to the website.
• Verify the changes you have made by visiting the website.

Option 3: While publishing WordPress post, Use a generic author name

• This is not a pure solution, just a work around since it does not remove the author name but replaces it with another name.
• In general, you will have to create a generic author name, which gets posted on all future posts.
• Please note that at a later time, if you want to add specific author name, you will have to edit each and every post separately.

The steps to follow are as follows:
• Create a new generic user profile such as “Editorial team” in your website.

• Go to Users-> All users and click “Edit” present below your newly created name.

• You can select the display name and the nickname for the user profile i.e.“Editorial team”.

• Go to Posts -> All posts, and set the number of items per page to 999. This enables you to edit all the posts with a single click.

• Select all posts using checkbox and then select “Edit” underdrop down menu“bulk actions”. Then click 'Apply’ button to continue.

• The bulk editing options will now be available. Change the author to the generic author name you have added earlier and then click “update”.

• WordPress will now update all the selected posts with the generic name you have provided.

So as you have seen, I have given you a detailed tutorial on removing author name from a wordpress post!! Tune in for more such awesome lessons from yours truly davcps!

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