Title: Author Name
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Author Name

 *  Resolved [lonelywriter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lonelywriter/)
 * (@lonelywriter)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-name-8/)
 * Hi,
 * I am confused. Is there a way since this anonymous to post the Author Name that
   the person enters? Like when we do for comments, it shows whatever name the person
   put there. It says Author Name is stored in cutom field but what does that mean.
 * I would like to post the author’s name and not assign it to admin or user that
   is created in WordPress. Is this posible?
 * Thank you.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/accesspress-anonymous-post/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/accesspress-anonymous-post/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Access Keys](https://wordpress.org/support/users/access-keys/)
 * (@access-keys)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-name-8/#post-7327028)
 * Hello lonelywriter,
 * Thank you for writing in.
 * Since our plugin is capabale of posting with or without logging in. And to create
   a post in WordPress it requires the real author i.e registered user but posting
   anonymously won’t provide real author. So the author will be assigned which is
   selected in the assign author dropdown of plugin’s general settings.
 * So post assigning should be done to real author so as per the mechanism of the
   WordPress itself, currently author name’s recieved from our form won’t be sufficient
   to assign it to the post because that is not the real registered author but the
   anonymous one.
 * Thanks.
 *  [imnotme82324](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrcdyer/)
 * (@jrcdyer)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-name-8/#post-7327055)
 * What I did was add a quick bit of code to my template, replacing every instance
   where the post author tag is mentioned with the following:
 *     ```
       <?php 
   
       /**
        * Check if the current author is the anonymous author.
        * Replace the "373" below with your anonymous user's ID number.
        */
       if( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ) == 373 ) : 
   
           echo get_post_meta( get_the_ID(),'ap_author_name', true );
   
        else : 
   
           the_author(); 
   
       endif; 
   
       ?>
       ```
   

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 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [imnotme82324](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrcdyer/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-name-8/#post-7327055)
 * Status: resolved