Changing Authors for Blog

Technical Q&A
1

Hi All: I’m using the Basic plan. I’ve barely sold anything so I don’t want to go to a more expensive plan. I want to write a blog but have the authors be different people. I would like to be able to change blog authors without having to get a move out of basic. Has anyone done this in a way that is not overwhelmingly technical? Thank you.

2

Hey @Zeus4

Not sure if that’s what you mean but you can change blogs author in every plan. See the attached screenshot below.

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Let me know if you require any more help.

Best,
Moeed

3

I’m only allowed to set that to myself. I would like to add other users. I’m aware of that dropdown box. that’s not the issue

4

You can have only one staff account on Basic plan and this dropdown only lists staff accounts.

However API allows updating author name.

So you can create a Flow like below to run daily (or hourly), get Articles published/created in the last day/hour and update author name via API:

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You can make it more complex and have several names chosen “randomly”…

5

Let me tell you the best way…
you can create a meta field for your blog post there you can insert all the author name and now instead of showing default author name you can call that meta field value which you created for author.

Let me know if you need help implementing this

6

Hey @Zeus4

Right approach to solve this is by using metafields

settings/custom_data/article/metafields/create

You can create

author_name,
author_bio,
author_avatar or author_handle. Got to the articles section and replace it with

{% if article.metafields.custom.author_name %}

  {{ article.metafields.custom.author_name }}

{% else %}

  {{ article.author }}

{% endif %}

You can also show full author details if you need.

Thanks
Akshay