Info How To Modify The Writer For A Published Blog-Post

This article explains how to alter the author of a post that has already been published inwards Blogger.

Blogger posts together with changing post-authors

When you lot Publish a post inwards Blogger, a issue of features are gear upwards for the post, every bit good every bit the contents.  These include:

• The URL / web-addresss where the post tin hold upwards found
• The post date/time when it was published
• The post-author (which is now laid the commencement fourth dimension that the post is Saved, ie fifty-fifty earlier it is published.)
• The labels that apply to it.

Some of these tin hold upwards changed past times editing the published post.

But at that topographic point are to a greater extent than or less features that cannot hold upwards altered after they are set.

In particular, Author is non changed fifty-fifty if a dissimilar Google account is used to edit the post - or if the master copy author has their permission to write to the blog removed.

This tin Pb to interesting situations on multi-author blogs, particularly when i author leaves the squad together with mayhap fifty-fifty deletes their Google account.   Because of this, to a greater extent than or less weblog owners select to non demo the "Posted-by"field (set on the Layout > Blog Posts edit > "Posted by" option).

But fifty-fifty if post-author is non displayed on the blog, it is useful for administrator to know who precisely posted each post.

That said, when someone asks how to alter the posted-by (ie author) value, the simple, together with correct, response is "You can't."

But at that topographic point is a agency to make it await similar the author has been changed, so that only the close eagle-eyed readers volition hold upwards able to say the difference.

How to alter the author of an existing blog-post

In short, you lot demand to brand a novel post alongside the same contents, together with thus travel a custom-redirect thus that anyone who tries to await at the quondam post (eg past times next a link to it) is automatically taken to the novel post.

Follow these steps:

You demand to accept greenback of several values during this procedure, which are used subsequently on. It may adept to opened upwards a text-editor (eg Notepad) earlier you lot start.


1   Look at the URL of the existing post, together with greenback the business office that is from the single-slash after your blog's name,  For illustration in

http://www.Example.blogspot.com/2012/06/my-post-title   

the business office you lot are looking for is the bold part, ie "/2012/06/my-post-title" - including the unmarried slash a the start.



two    Edit the existing post, teach to the HTML tab and

• Copy the contents (like you lot would if you lot were copying a post from i weblog to another). 
• Note the value nether Options > Line Break, which is either travel <br> tag or Pressenter for a novel line.

iii    Log inwards to Blogger alongside the trouble organisation human relationship that you lot desire to use every bit the novel post author-name.


iv    Create a novel post, together with brand certain you lot receive got the same setting nether Options > Line breaks, to hold upwards certain that you lot teach the spacing right.


v   Edit the post to hold upwards but similar the quondam one:

• Put the HTML that you lot copied into inwards the HTML persuasion of the novel post.
• Apply whatsoever Labels or Location values that applied to the quondam post.
• Make the title the same every bit it was inwards the quondam post.
• Change the date to the same every bit the quondam post.

half dozen   Make the URL of the novel post similar but non quite the same:

• Put the value you lot establish inwards 1 pace into the custom-permalink field. 
• Add to a greater extent than or less text to it thus that it is non the same every bit the master copy value,
  eg brand "my-post-title" into "my-post-title1"

seven   Publish the post and  note the business office of  the post-URL from the single-slash after your blog's name


8   Set upwards a re-direct from the quondam post to the novel post:

• Go to Settings > Search Preferences
• Edit the Custom Redirects
• Add a novel redirection (only needed if you lot already receive got some)
• Enter the value from pace 1 into From
• Enter the value from pace seven into To
• Tick Permanent
• Click the save link for this particular re-direction, together with thus the Save Changes button.

nine   Check your blog, to brand certain that the re-direction is working correctly.


10  Once you lot are happy that the re-direction is working correctly, delete the quondam post.
You volition demand either the existing author account, or a Google trouble organisation human relationship alongside administrator rights, to exercise this.   If SEO matters for your blog, thus it is adept to exercise it every bit presently every bit you lot can, thus you lot are non penalized for having duplicate content.

What your readers volition see

Everyone who is subscribed to your blog's RSS-feed or follow-by-email gadget will encounter a novel post.
(I you lot don't desire this, turn your feed off before you lot start - but don't forget to plough on i time to a greater extent than when you lot are finished!)

Visitors who browse your weblog posts volition encounter the "old" post, alongside the novel author, inwards the master copy place.

Visitors who assay to go direct to the quondam post via an existing link or from search-engine results volition automatically hold upwards re-directed to the "new" version of the post. Very observant ones may let on that the URL is slightly dissimilar from the original. Most won't.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 quicker way:  get command of the master copy Author account

The method described to a higher house is fiddly together with irksome - especially if you lot desire to alter the author of many posts.

An alternative is to enquire the master copy author if they nevertheless desire the Google account  that they used to brand the posts. If you lot are lucky they

• Don't desire it, and 
• Are willing to mitt the password over to you. 

In this case, you lot could

1. Quickly change the password (before they alter their mind!), and
2. Edit their profile to the novel author elevate that you lot would similar to receive got displayed. You may too desire to alter to a greater extent than or less other details - together with if they are using a Google+ profile together with you lot already receive got one, thus you lot should in all probability delete this.

This isn't a full solution, of course: no affair how you lot edit their profile, it volition nevertheless hold upwards dissimilar to your ain profile. But it may hold upwards improve than nothing.

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