Byline shows site admin instead of guest author
Post byline shows the WordPress account author instead of the guest author name, and avatar and website fields are greyed out in the editor.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 5 March 2021 · last reported 28 February 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners who credit posts to a guest writer report that the published byline still displays the WordPress account that wrote or published the post, not the guest name they entered.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.