Title: Remove Author data from posts?
Last modified: October 11, 2020

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# Remove Author data from posts?

 *  Resolved [nickweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickweb/)
 * (@nickweb)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-data-from-posts/)
 * Is there any chance the next release could add a feature to remove the author
   name from a post to increase security? Even though theres a different display
   name, the HTML code includes the actual user name and this can be used to attempt
   to login to the site. There are numerous CSS tricks to do so, but this only hides
   the data and can still be seen in the view source of a website.
 * Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Contributor [mbrsolution](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mbrsolution/)
 * (@mbrsolution)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-data-from-posts/#post-13520523)
 * Thank you for reaching out to us. I have submitted a message to the developers
   to investigate further your request.
 * Kind regards
 *  [archesis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anchises/)
 * (@anchises)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-data-from-posts/#post-13573911)
 * I think there are already plugins for that, however having this function as part
   of a security plugin would make sense.

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 * Last reply from: [archesis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anchises/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-author-data-from-posts/#post-13573911)
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