how to change post authors in wordpress

You allow guest authors on your website or blog and want to reassign post authorship from one user to another, rs that have to be published under your name or assigned to the account of other users, You delete user from your site and want to transfer content attribution to existing members, etc...   How to keep the same post author assigned to item and change their display name, Attributing post to author using Post Editor panel, Attributing post to in Quick Edit feature, Reassigning multiple posts to another in 'Bulk Actions function.   Hover over your user profile and click Edit.. #2 You can also click on Users > Your Profile from Dashboard menu.. #3  You can also go to the 'Howdy, Your Site Name at the very top corner of your admin screen and click  Edit My Profile ...   By selecting the check box next to individual post entries or click the checkbox on the header to select all items at once, Select the posts you want to assign to another author from Table of Posts, either...   Find the Author options.. Select the author you want to assign the posts to from Author menu, and click Update to update your new settings.. ..   then check to make sure that you have assigned user level higher than subscriber..   To change post authorship for individual post item, select the post from Table of Posts and click on the ' Quick Edit link...   Choose the user you want to assign post authorship to from Author drop-down menu and click 'Update button to save your new settings...   To assign all content from removed users to different users, select  'Attribute all content to, choose user from the dropdown menu ...   Martin Aranovitch is the owner of WPCompendium org and the author of WordPress User Manual.   Read more