Title: Change Author
Author: Martin Teley
Published: <strong>1. Mai 2014</strong>
Last modified: 12. Juli 2017

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Plugins suchen

Dieses Plugin wurde **nicht mit den 3 neuesten Hauptversionen von WordPress getestet**.
Es wird möglicherweise nicht mehr gepflegt oder unterstützt und kann bei der Verwendung
mit neueren WordPress-Versionen zu Kompatibilitätsproblemen führen.

![](https://ps.w.org/change-author/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=981625)

# Change Author

 Von [Martin Teley](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrxthefifth/)

[Herunterladen](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/change-author.zip)

 * [Details](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/change-author/#description)
 * [Rezensionen](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/change-author/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/change-author/#installation)
 * [Entwicklung](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/change-author/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/)

## Beschreibung

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!

## Installation

#### Install via WordPress Admin

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

#### Install via FTP

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

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

#### Install via WordPress Admin

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

#### Install via FTP

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

  Do I need to configure anything?

No, this plugin does not need a settings page.

  I don’t see the meta box, where is it?

Click ‚Screen Options‘ at the upper right corner and check the box next to ‚Author‘.

  Why can’t I just type the name of the person I want to credit as author instead
of having to use a user account?

Well, some themes link the author name to the author archive and that needs a user
account to work. So this plugin will not break such theme functions.

  What post types are supported?

All public post types are supported, both built-in and custom.

## Rezensionen

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2071c51bb0230a2168e6b6215b544012711cbe97339975384ca2020cc6872621?
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### 󠀁[Just awesome](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-awesome-205/)󠁿

 [vnkjoshi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vnkjoshi/) 3. Januar 2019

Work as expected. Thank you so much.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works great. Like it!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-like-it/)󠁿

 [romanbitca](https://profiles.wordpress.org/romanbitca/) 31. August 2018

easy. useful. light.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/aa7e8ed225d140b1d8a2b6c8393a757e836851f8c2de992f9f9a3618254acf9f?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[No longer works…but here’s a fix:](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/no-longer-works-but-heres-a-fix/)󠁿

 [Alex Mansfield](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexmansfield/) 28. Juni 2018 2
Antworten

This plugin attempts to override the default author meta box, but that doesn’t seem
to work any more. However, it is possible to simply filter the options for the author
dropdown list like this to get the same result: function add_subscribers_to_dropdown(
$query_args, $r ) { $query_args['who'] = ''; return $query_args; } add_filter( '
wp_dropdown_users_args', 'add_subscribers_to_dropdown', 10, 2 ); More details in
the user contributed notes for the wp_dropdown_users_args filter.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Not Compatible With Latest Version of WP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-compatible-with-latest-version-of-wp-2/)󠁿

 [clicksimply](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clicksimply/) 13. Mai 2018

This plugin doesn’t work on the newest versions of Wordpress. Hopefully the author
updates soon!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/205f0c1c48266f54958c8e18188ad9987aa029dcbcbb20d54e8afedb8c6ddaa0?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Doesn’t seem to work anymore](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-seem-to-work-anymore-6/)󠁿

 [agsrescue](https://profiles.wordpress.org/agsrescue/) 18. Dezember 2017

With the addon installed, nothing changed or allowed me to change the name of the
author on my multisite.

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ccb4344e32f2762120900f7eb023b4d730a2aa53890f3b95967ad896fba5575c?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[At Last!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/at-last-33/)󠁿

 [Rik0399](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rik0399/) 9. November 2017

Drove me crazy what should have been a WP default! So I had to add yet another plugin
to fix the issue! Well done to the developer!

 [ Alle 11 Rezensionen lesen ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/)

## Mitwirkende und Entwickler

„Change Author“ ist Open-Source-Software. Folgende Menschen haben an diesem Plugin
mitgewirkt:

Mitwirkende

 *   [ Martin Teley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrxthefifth/)

[Übersetze „Change Author“ in deine Sprache.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/change-author)

### Interessiert an der Entwicklung?

[Durchstöbere den Code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/change-author/),
sieh dir das [SVN-Repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/change-author/) 
an oder abonniere das [Entwicklungsprotokoll](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/change-author/)
per [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/change-author/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Änderungsprotokoll

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

#### 1.1

 * Fixed translation
 * Updated tags

#### 1.2

 * Updated to work on pages too (credits to @jondaley)

#### 1.3

 * Updated to support custom post types

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3**
 *  Zuletzt aktualisiert **vor 9 Jahren**
 *  Aktive Installationen **1.000+**
 *  WordPress-Version ** 3.0.1 oder höher **
 *  Getestet bis **4.8.28**
 *  Sprache
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/change-author/)
 * Schlagwörter
 * [author](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/author/)[custom author](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-author/)
   [custom post author](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-post-author/)
   [user](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/user/)
 *  [Erweiterte Ansicht](https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/change-author/advanced/)

## Bewertungen

 4 von 5 Sternen.

 *  [  9 5-Sterne-Rezensionen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-Sterne-Rezensionen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-Sterne-Rezensionen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-Sterne-Rezensionen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  3 1-Sterne-Rezensionen     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/#new-post)

[Alle Rezensionen anzeigen](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/reviews/)

## Mitwirkende

 *   [ Martin Teley ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrxthefifth/)

## Support

Möchtest du etwas mitteilen? Brauchst du Unterstützung?

 [Support-Forum anzeigen](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/change-author/)