Title: Author Alias
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Author Alias

 *  [Jeremy Sarber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsarber/)
 * (@jsarber)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-alias/)
 * I’ve been trying to find a plugin or something to add author aliases much like
   you can do in Joomla. I add a lot of old church writings to the site which I 
   would love to display as being written by the actual authors instead of my personal
   username on the blog.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-alias/#post-969394)
 * Assuming there’s no plugin that would work, you could consider:
 * 1. Create those authors as users, then edit the Posts and make the post author
   one of those users.
    2. Use Tags or Categories 3. Use Custom Fields ([Using_Custom_Fields](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields))
 *  [henryromero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henryromero/)
 * (@henryromero)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-alias/#post-969600)
 * Hello,
 * This is an example like i could do this with Custom Fields.
 * i made a Custom Field Called Author-Alias and with this code, you can show it
   in your website.
 *     ```
       <?php $Alias = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Author-Alias', true); ?>
       Author : <?php if ($Alias == "")the_author_posts_link(); else echo $Alias; ?>
       ```
   

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## Tags

 * [alias](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/alias/)
 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)
 * [Joomla](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/joomla/)

 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [henryromero](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henryromero/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-alias/#post-969600)
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