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[Resolved] WordPress Question: How to assign an author to a page

  • Participant
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    Mike (DesignServe) on August 22, 2019 at 6:48 pm #24879

    Hi Brajesh,

    I’m sorry if I have asked you this before. I want to assign authorship of some pages to users and I can’t work out how to do it in WordPress. Do you know how I can do that?

    The reason is that some of my Users have previously written articles for my sites. I’m migrating the pages to WordPress and I want to give them the credit (because their Author Bio will show up on the page).

    Many thanks,
    Mike

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    Brajesh Singh on August 22, 2019 at 10:37 pm #24892

    Hi Mike,
    No issues.

    If you are using classic editor, you can enable it from screen options as shown here
    https://i.imgur.com/yoRIsiw.png
    and
    https://i.imgur.com/7h90hxL.png

    If you are using the Gutenberg editor, you can do it form Document settings as shown here

    https://i.imgur.com/7NOi0mP.png

    Hope that helps.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Mike (DesignServe) on August 22, 2019 at 11:23 pm #24895

    Ohhhh… yes it does help…

    Seems I have to make them an author for them to be in the dropdown?

    I was the only author in the site, as admin.

    I didn’t want them to be authors. That means they can make new pages, right? So they would access the wp dashboard.

    I will have to see if there is a way to put them in the dropdown but without them being an author perhaps. Maybe User Role Editor can help with it.

    Thanks. It was a kindof dumb question but in my old system I could make them a page ‘author’, or ‘owner’ it didn’t mean they could edit anything 🙂

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    Brajesh Singh on August 23, 2019 at 12:09 am #24900

    Hi Mike,
    You can mark a user as “Contibutor” and they will appear to. They won’t be able to do much.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Mike (DesignServe) on August 23, 2019 at 12:40 am #24903

    Thanks I’ll try that!

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