The author name shown on a Zoho Sites blog post is pulled from the Nickname set on the publishing account's profile, and this creates a genuine limitation worth knowing about before you run into it.
Changing the Author Name
- Go to your Zoho account profile settings.
- Update the Nickname field to the name you want displayed as the author.
- Save your changes.
The genuine limitation: The Nickname is tied to the account, not to an individual post. Changing it updates the displayed author name across every post ever published from that account, not just the one you're trying to fix. There's no native way to set a distinct author name on a single post while leaving the rest of that account's posts under a different name. If several team members publish under one shared Zoho Sites login, this means you can't easily attribute individual posts to the person who actually wrote them, without changing the shared account's Nickname back and forth before each publish.
Practical Workarounds
- Separate contributor accounts. If different team members regularly write blog posts, add each of them as a Contributor with their own login, rather than sharing a single account, so each person's own Nickname naturally attributes their own posts correctly.
- Hide the author name entirely. If per-post author attribution isn't essential to your blog, some Zoho Sites templates allow the author field to be hidden from blog post display via the template or theme settings, sidestepping the issue rather than solving it.
- Add the author's name in the post content itself. A manual byline written directly into the post body, rather than relying on the platform's automatic author field, gives full control over the credit shown, independent of account settings.
Need help? 1 Cloud Consultants can help you set up separate contributor accounts or a manual byline workflow so your Zoho Sites blog correctly credits each writer.
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