I am wanting to add a new blog author or guest author without making them an administrator of the site? Is that possible?

We developed an app to help you with that: https://apps.shopify.com/change-author A perfect example of what I’m talking about. Shopify should have this functionality built in. The fact that someone can try to charge me $7.99/mo to do something I want to do shows me that this kind of thing CAN be …

Did you try the solutions in my previous post? You don’t have to install any app

Peter, I really need this functionality too. Paying for an app monthly seems ridiculous. This cuts us off from cross-marketing opportunities with other blogs.

@CarolBiovida Shopify does not care. They intentionally leave out TONS of basic functionality so that they can create a marketplace based on manufactured demand where functionality you need can be sold back to you as an “app” with a monthly fee, which is provided by a third party and which I promise…

Can you please add another vote for this feature request !

For $8 a month, you can change a text value to reflect the appropriate author!! This is just a sad abuse of a simple Shopify limitation. How do they sleep at night? This should be a $5 ONE TIME fee to offer this simple code change in. Robbery!

It is genuinely insane to me someone thinks its reasonable to pay $8 PER MONTH for such a simple change. This is something that should take a programmer at Shopify 30 minutes to fix. Ridiculous.

What had happened with the request from 2.5 years ago? Already resolved?

The easiest way to change name of author/your personal name not to be seen, is to change the name of your account - from your personal name to maybe company name/nick… On the main page in shopify click on your name in the top right corner, click on manage account and just change your first and last…

How do I change the author name on my blog?

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alejandropet January 8, 2023, 2:56pm 18

Extremely necessary feature

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How do I change the author name on my blog?

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