Change the author name in blogger

A couple of days ago one of my friend asked “how to  change the author name on my blogger blog” , at that time I did not know the answer but today i have found the answer and i am going to post it here for my readers.

Steps to change author name:

  • Sign in to your dashboard –>Design (Edit Layout)–>Edit HTML
  • Click on “Expand Widget Templates“
  • Search for the following content
<span class='post-author vcard'>
<b:if cond='data:top.showAuthor'>
<data:top.authorLabel/>
<span class='fn'><data:post.author/></span>
</b:if>
</span>
  • Now replace <data:post.author/> of above code with your new author name.
  • Click on “Save Templates” and Refresh your site.

This how you can change the author name in blogger.

UPDATE: If above mentioned steps didnt work for you and you are using new interface of blogger, then you can also try below mentioned steps to change the author name in blogger.

  • Sign in to your blogger account
  • After Signing in, click on the downward arrow available at the top right corner (beside the display name of you on the blog).
  • Now click on the blogger profile.
  • Now click on the Edit profile (link is available at the top right corner, after above step).
  • Now you are on “Edit User Profile” page, from here look for “Display Name”. Once you reached to the Display Name text field, update the display name here (whatever you want to write), Save the profile.

This how you can change the author name in new blogger interface.

Posted by + on April 19, 2011

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  • Odisha Jobs

    Thanks good post
    I am going to implement this on my blog on http://www.odishajobs.in

    Regards
    Odishajobs.in Team

  • Sairapthan

    nice keep it up

  • Muhammaed Asha’ary
  • http://thesonoran.blogspot.com/ The Sonoran

    This is the content that I found. How would it work with this new code?

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    • mlivetech

      you can login to blogger dashboard and click on the gear icon available at right top section and switch to old blogger interface and then proceed as mentioned in the post.

      • http://thesonoran.blogspot.com/ The Sonoran

        Thanks for the reply. I did what you said, but the HTML codes were still the same regardless of interface. I tried it again, but it still doesn’t seem to work when I remove and replace it with my name.

        Could you demonstrate what the code should look like replaced with a fake name? Maybe I’m doing something wrong in that regard.

        • Mlivetech

          when you reached to ‘Edit HTML’ part from the dashboard with “Expand Widget Templates” option checked, just search for not (you can use ctrl+F shortcut to search ) and replace with the name you are looking to place. I think you will find twice in the code, replace this part of code with the name you wanted. I hope it will work because i have tested it and is working fine.

          • http://thesonoran.blogspot.com/ The Sonoran

            Okay, here’s the code without the brackets -

            div class=’post-footer’
            div class=’post-footer-line post-footer-line-1′
            span class=’post-author vcard’
            b:if cond=’data:top.showAuthor’
            b:if cond=’data:post.authorProfileUrl’
            span class=’fn’
            a expr:href=’data:post.authorProfileUrl’ itemprop=’author’ rel=’author’ title=’author profile’
            data:post.author/
            /a
            /span
            b:else/
            span class=’fn’ data:post.author/ /span
            /b:if
            /b:if
            /span

            It’s different than your original post. Where do I substitute the name I want to use?

          • Mlivetech

            “data:post.author/ ” should be replaced by the name (e.g. admin) you want. The code you have provided has “data:post.author/” twice. one after else and one before it, also there could be 2 more “data:post.author/” in the code just check for it put the name you wanted. In case if you still face the problem. just name the theme you are using so that i can try to figure out from your theme if it has something else.

          • guest

            u will find 3 times like this…replace this with your new name…(delete and replace it)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001037448995 Saurabh Shrivastava

    cannot find that! i think the code has been changed…. please replyQ

    • Mlivetech

      you can login to blogger dashboard and click on the gear icon available at right top section and switch to old blogger interface and then proceed as mentioned in the post.

  • http://thesonoran.blogspot.com/ The Sonoran

    Nope, didn’t work. I’m using one of the default Google themes, Awesome, Inc.

    • Mlivetech

      I have emailed you an dummy code of awesome theme with changed author name. Please check it.

  • Hhfydtdz101

    i cant find where it says where is it? Theres a lot of different themes it could be on and i checked! Where is it

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