Setting Post Author(s)

Change the author of a post or add multiple authors to a single post.

This site uses the Guest Author option to list the post author as a team of people, rather than an individual.

By default, the byline of a post will display the name of the person who created the post.

If you’d like to credit another person (or group of people) as the author, you can add them to your site as a guest author, or select their name in the post’s author field if they’re already an editor or author on your site.

A single post can list multiple authors.

Adding guest authors to your site

Before you can attribute a guest author to a specific post, you’ll add them to the site following these steps:

  1. From the left menu of your site’s dashboard, go to Users > Guest Authors.
  2. Click Add New and enter the Display Name. All other fields are optional and will not appear on the post.
  3. Click Add Guest Author on the right.
  4. Now that the guest author profile has been created, you can add them to a post following the steps in the next section.

Don’t see Guest Authors? Contact sites@wustl.edu for help.

Assigning a guest author or co-author to a post

Once the author’s profile is created — either following the steps above or because they are a site editor or admin — you can assign them as an author or co-author of a post.

  1. Go to the post and edit post.
  2. Find the Authors section of the post settings. In the Select an author field, enter the author’s name. Authors can be site editors or admins, or a guest author that you added to the site following the instructions above.
  1. Select the author’s name.
  2. If the post has multiple authors, continue adding. You can drag and drop the names into the order you’d like in the byline.
  3. You can delete authors — such as the site editor who added the post — by clicking the X to the right of their name.
  4. Publish or Update the post to save the authors.